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From: feedback (Bryan Bankhead)
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Subject: Types of AI thought
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As I understand the field AI is split up into two types of people:]
Syntacticists:  Those who think that AI is basically a matter of sovling 
the stucture behind how information elements are relatet to each other.]
                EXAMPLE: In language translation a syntacticist would 
concetrate on programs involving sentence diagraming and recognition of 
grammatical cues within instance of the translate.
Semanticists:  Those who think AI is based on the question of 'meaning'.
                EXAMPLE:  In language translation the semanticist 
concentrates on the recognition of the symbols for 'objects' and the 
relationship between object and their actions in the translate.
Of the members of this newgroup; are you a sytactici or a semanticist?
Of course feel free to violently disagree with my definition of the 
divisons or to make up you own divisions in the field.
        
                Thank You for your time
                        B Bankhead