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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: AI & Derrida (was: Re: Speech Act Interpretation:... (Unisys AI Seminar))
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Date: 7 Oct 89 02:43:11 GMT
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;In article <11627@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin) writes:

;;One of the crucial problems facing natural language research is the
;;interpretation of language in context. This requires not only
;;sophisticated systems to analyze the underlying structure of language,
;;but also the representation of general knowledge about the world, and
;;the modelling of natural inference processes. In this talk I will look
;;at one particular problem that requires both structural constraints
;;and inference in order to identify the correct interpretation, namely
;;the identification of the intentions of the speaker.

To which I wrote:

;Evidently Artificial Intelligence has not yet met Jacques Derrida.

I've been asked to explain myself. Well now, just didn't you fall into the
trap though. Even with a sophisticated system to analyze the underlying 
structure of what I said, namely your brain, general knowledge about the 
world and the ability to make inferences, you still can't identify the 
correct interpretation of what I said, namely the identification of my 
intentions. 

Yes yes I know. What you REALLY mean is that you're going to ask your
program to show you the large screwdriver (ref: Winston & Horn, LISP,
2nd Ed., pg 302).  Or have I failed to identify your intentions?