Comments on: A Lexicon of the Curveship World https://nickm.com/post/2009/08/a-lexicon-of-the-curveship-world/ Nick Montfort Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:12:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2009/08/a-lexicon-of-the-curveship-world/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:38:56 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=327#comment-584 I had a question via mud about whether the “What Exists in the World” and “What Happens in the World” sections apply to the actual world, or the concepts, or both. At the level of discussion here, these representations are all used in both the actual world and the concepts. There are some differences between the two representations, since the actual world is for simulating and the concepts are for narrating, and since the concepts are usually incomplete, and so on. But I’ll have to get into that in a later post.

]]> By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2009/08/a-lexicon-of-the-curveship-world/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:01:57 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=327#comment-579 Noah, it’s mainly due to my wish to model simple actions in the physical world, but also because the IF situation is not as complex as the general natural language parsing and generation one.

For instance, Schank was interested in modeling things like “John bet Sam fifty dollars that the Red Sox would win the World Series.” I’m more interested in “Put the cloak on the hook.” Schank’s sentence is still, today, a very difficult one model at a deep semantic level. John, however, has better odds these days.

]]> By: Noah Wardrip-Fruin https://nickm.com/post/2009/08/a-lexicon-of-the-curveship-world/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:15:50 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=327#comment-575 I see you’ve greatly simplified the Schank set of events. Is that in part due to the item tree?

Looking forward to more!

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