This is a list of open research projects and possible seminar projects.
The default project is to take a passage containing an "unknown"
word, represent it in SNePS, determine what prior knowledge is needed to
compute a meaning for the word from context, represent that knowledge,
and run the appropriate definition algorithm on it, modifying either the
representation or the algorithm, as needed, to get it to work. For
details, see the webpage
"Programming Project"
Revise the noun-definition algorithm.
Revise the verb-definition algorithm.
Possibly merge the N and V algorithms?
Revise the adjective-definition algorithm.
Create or modify a computational grammar for one of the demos.
Rewrite the definition algorithms using SNeRE, so that Cassie will
"consciously" create definitions, rather than "unconsiously" use her Lisp
definition-"calculator".
Create a "master" demo: Combine all PK files and all words into a single demo,
to see what happens on a large scale.
Experiment with using passages/words from the
MICASE on-line corpus of
spoken text.