L64 PNP 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Natural Language Understanding, Shrdlu, Paper Plane
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Detects ambiguities and ask you to disambiguate it. Carry out instructions via a (simulated) robot hand. No goals except those introduced in the "conversation" No sensitivity to the pragmatics of the conversation. Doesn"t consider context, takes the sentence as its given. Believes shrdlu doesn"t give us much understanding about how humans actually process natural language. ""approximates" a playroom more as a paper plane approximates a duc. "neglecting the tangled intricacies of everyday life and using common sense" Shrdlu isn"t part of a theory of common sense--nor is it intended as a complete model of natural language understanding. Shrdlu shows how far we can get in modeling language understanding usin certain basic tools a duck" on using simp. Shrdlu shows how far we can get in modeling language understanding usin certain basic tools. We know it doesn"t mean that humans process like shrdlu, more interesting that you can program the language understanding my simp algorithms.