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Presentation Four : Proposed Changes : Instance Specific published Sun, Apr 28, 2002 - 23:20 EDT

Instance Specific



Currently the reporting technique for the verb algorithm would report the following two sentences:

"Derek threw the baseball to Tino."

"The chimp threw the ball."

"Godzilla threw the metro bus"

as

A (human chimp Godzilla) can throw a (baseball ball metro bus) to a human.

This leaves a somewhat unclear representation of whom can throw what. It is likely that both a chimp and a human can throw a ball and baseball but unlikely that either can throw a metro bus. This is a delicate situation because you would like the verb algorithm to report that both humans and chimps can throw balls and baseballs because it is more useful information but you do not want to imply that they can throw a metro bus.

Is it the responsibility of the algorithm to make this clear? In some ways I think not. There are simply too many situations for the verb algorithm to contemplate.


Node authored by Justin Del Vecchio

Presentation Four : Proposed Changes : Instance Specific published Sun, Apr 28, 2002 - 23:20 EDT
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