Sadly, I am in complete agreement. But note that this complaint is a
consequence of expecting an agreement in the first place. Individual
scholars/mathematicians, trained in the application of a formalized
epistemology, may fair better - depending upon your goals. (01)
I'm less certain that trained individuals can write programs that behave as
they intend. That people write programs, I have no doubt. (02)
Regards,
Steven (03)
On Mar 20, 2013, at 3:14 AM, sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: (04)
> Ali,
>
> I was trying to be brief. I'll try to clarify the point.
>
> JFS
> >> I believe that it is easier to process unrestricted NL as written by
> >> humans who are writing for other humans than it is to correct the errors
> >> in the artificial languages written by humans who are writing for
> >> machines.
>
> AH
> > Do you mean that it would be easier to process by machines as well? Easier
> > to process by whom and how?
>
> Short answer: the error rates are so high that it's useless for both
>computers and people to try to make sense out of what they get.
>
> When highly trained professional annotators add semantic markup to texts, a
>level of agreement among annotators of 95% is unusually high. In most cases,
>it's much lower.
>
> When people with a typical college degree and a modest amount of instruction
>try to annotate texts according to some standard, 50% agreement is high. In
>many cases, flipping a coin would give comparable results.
>
> I have very little faith in those annotations and even less faith in the
>attempts by most people to express what they're trying to say in any
>artificial notation.
>
> I admit that people can learn to write computer programs -- but that is only
>because the computer is an unforgiving taskmaster. People either give up or
>they persist until they are rewarded by getting something useful from the
>machine.
>
> John
>
>
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