COG SCI 190 Lecture Notes - Shrdlu, Ochroma
13 Apr 2014
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The discipline matures lecture: behaviorism, environment (cid:224) behavior, cognitive science, environment (cid:224) representation (and processing) (cid:224) behavior, language is special, uniquely human, classic challenge to behaviorism (whitehead, symbolic system par excellence, language, defining feature of human cognition, we have seen proposals about how linguistic knowledge is represented but not how it is processed, language is understanding necessarily at least partly symbolic, eliza (mimicking understanding, joseph weizenbaum, original chatterbot: applied pattern matching rules to human"s statements, and replied accordingly, no representation of meaning of the statements, remarkably easy to talk to, input is examined, keywords are matched and an appropriate response is output, nothing near understanding , symbolic but shallow. Shrdlu: terry winograd all language use can be thought of as a way of activating procedures within the hearer , natural language understanding in a micro world, language linked to action, this is the one with the blocks and pyramids and such, 3 interacting components.
