RE: [huml] another DARPA BAA (better timeframe and perhaps more appropriatetarget)

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

It is the harder one but one that requires less data 
to test although it is hard to prove it scales.  The 
first one is closer to what HumanML as a set of categories 
for contexts of human communication can easily do. 
Systems that can successfully emulate human cognition 
must deal with theory formation and how that is 
effected by interpretation of observed events which 
have emotional contexts.

Ask yourself how one goes about selecting HumanML 
categories to create a secondary?  Then how does 
one markup an observation (think of it as a document?
Then how does the cognitive agent select this document 
among many it has to perform an action based on a 
new observation?  

The hard part for DARPA to accept will be that humans 
are not that good at this either without training 
and that training being focused on narrow domains 
limits flexibility.  So the next question is how to 
create teams of cognitive agents that share theories 
and will act in concert to achieve some mission. 
They will discover the same principles of leadership 
and group dynamics that work for the military and 
sports teams when the actions to be achieved require 
highly directed force.  In other types of actions, 
a different team dynamic is required.

How does a set of episodic events become a genre?

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Nixon [mailto:robnixon@execpc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:53 AM
To: James Landrum
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L (Len)
Subject: Re: [huml] another DARPA BAA (better timeframe and perhaps more
appropriatetarget)


Both DARPA projects that Jim and Len have pointed out look interesting.
The one that Jim has pointed out appears to quite parallel to what
my company is currently working on.

Regards,
Rob

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