Comment Simple Sentences? (Score 2, Insightful) 165
"Characters even have the ability to dynamically create their own language, constructing simple sentences on a word by word basis."
I wonder whether this means creating new words and then constructing sentences using the new words, or if the characters will be given a lexicon and a grammar and will produce sentences using them.
The first case is quite time consuming. Many iterations of language development "games" are required to produce a common language. Also most of the language development processes that have been proposed only produce a limited subset of the syntactic categories. There would also be the problem of the person playing the game being unable to understand the AI characters. (For information on language development see http://www.csl.sony.fr/General/Publications/Biblio graphyItem.php3?reference=steels%3A99f)
In the second case, would the characters be able to produce syntactically correct sentences? The 'goodness' of the sentences would depend, I guess, on the size of the lexicon and the complexity of the grammar rules. However producing complex sentences would make it more difficult for other characters to understand them, due to the difficulties of parsing a rich language. I just hope it doesn't end up being a (subject, object verb) language with no real syntax.
I will be interested to see just how this turns out.
I wonder whether this means creating new words and then constructing sentences using the new words, or if the characters will be given a lexicon and a grammar and will produce sentences using them.
The first case is quite time consuming. Many iterations of language development "games" are required to produce a common language. Also most of the language development processes that have been proposed only produce a limited subset of the syntactic categories. There would also be the problem of the person playing the game being unable to understand the AI characters. (For information on language development see http://www.csl.sony.fr/General/Publications/Bibli
In the second case, would the characters be able to produce syntactically correct sentences? The 'goodness' of the sentences would depend, I guess, on the size of the lexicon and the complexity of the grammar rules. However producing complex sentences would make it more difficult for other characters to understand them, due to the difficulties of parsing a rich language. I just hope it doesn't end up being a (subject, object verb) language with no real syntax.
I will be interested to see just how this turns out.
