Linguistics for the Age of AI

• Main Author: McShane, Marjorie (auth)
• Other Authors: Nirenburg, Sergei (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Machine learning; Lexicography; Cognitive science; natural language understanding; computational semantics; computational pragmatics; computational linguistics; intelligent agents; cognitive modelling; cognitive systems; AI; artificial intelligence; language-endowed intelligent agents; natural language processing; NLP; language-endowed intelligent agent systems; linguistic and extralinguistic scope; understanding; Extracting and representing meaning; theories; systems and models; actionability; explanation; Theory and methodology; knowledge bases; incrementality; microtheories; Pre-semantic analysis; error recovery; managing complexity; Modification; proposition-level semantic enhancements; constructions; indirect speech acts; non-literal language; ellipsis; fragments; unknown words; personal pronouns; broad referring expressions; definite descriptions; anaphoric event coreference; Residual ambiguities; incongruities; underspecification; incorporating; OntoAgent cognitive architecture; fractured syntax; treating underspecified elements; Integrated NLU applications; Maryland Virtual Patient; cognitive robotics; Model and system evaluation; component-level evaluation; holistic evaluation
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A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on appl...