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Formal Ontology
Applications of upper level ontologies
Formal ontology as a template to create novel specific domain ontologies Having a formal ontology at your disposal, especially when it consists of a Formal upper layer enriched with concrete domain-independent 'middle layer' concepts, can really aid the creation of a domain…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
The invention of eliza
In 1966, Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor of computer science at MIT, create, as an experiment in natural language processing, a computer program called ELIZA that carried on a conversation by replying to typed-in statements with printed words. [...] The resulting persona, Eliza…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
The early failure of machine translation
In 1963, after spending $20 million on research into machine translation, the US funding agency concluded: “There is no immediate or predictable prospect of useful machine translation” – National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1963. Faced with a hard problem, AI…