Expert: Chuck Cosby - 6/10/2004

Question
Hi,

I am in the progress of developing a system that will respond to human instruction in a natural way. I have no clue of the correct structure that natural langauge should follow.

Could you point me in the right direction as to how a would "group" my responses in order that they can be managed easily.

For example if i asked the system how it was, it should respond with a "feelings" group, where as if i asked what the weather was it should respond with a "facts" group.

If this does not make sense to you i will try and rewrite, i'm finding it difficult to explain.

Best Regards

Dan Hawkins

Answer
Give individual words 'Concept codes'.  the trick is that one word may have more than one concept code.  Parse a sentence to find all the concept codes, solve for the most logical meaning  

(Don't worry, it's only taken me 25 years to figure the right way to do this)