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Date:Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:04:20 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:Re: Evolutionary programming, learning language 
From:A . Sloman 
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Wayn wrote:

> 2. i want the bot to start with basics such as english
> alphabet [list]  and learn to form words the phrases
> then sentences... what would that look like.

There is no simple answer to this short of writing a long
tutorial document. My tip would be

A. develop fluency in pop11 so that you can do the exercises
in teach files like
	TEACH sets
	TEACH sets2
	TEACH parsing
	TEACH GRAMMAR

B. Write down in great detail many examples of the kinds of learning
processes that you would like your program to go through. This includes
specifying in detail what sort of teacher is going to be involved, what
the teacher is willing to do, what sort of teaching style is used, etc.

C. Work backwards from those examples to mechanisms that could
produce them, by analysing the examples in great detail to work
out the requirements for the mechanisms.

This could be many years' work.

Alternatively read some of the literature on language learning (on which
I know very little) and select whichever approach you like from among
the several competing research paradigms.

Then find out what sorts of programs those researchers write, try to
copy and develop those programs.

Again, that's a long project.

Aaron