It is not my book, but I think it will interest people around here. I think it is an easy
ready, it meant to be read by professionals and hobbyist alike. There is no code.
A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for
intelligent agent systems.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia –
a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent
agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has
focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than
attempting to model what people do and how they do it. In this book, Marjorie McShane and
Sergei Nirenburg return to the original goal of recreating human-level intelligence in a
machine. They present a human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language
understanding for intelligent agent systems that emphasizes meaning—the deep,
context-sensitive meaning that a person derives from spoken or written language.
With Linguistics for the Age of AI, McShane and Nirenburg offer a roadmap for creating
language-endowed intelligent agents (LEIAs) that can understand,explain, and learn. They
describe the language-understanding capabilities of LEIAs from the perspectives of
cognitive modeling and system building, emphasizing “actionability”—which involves
achieving interpretations that are sufficiently deep, precise, and confident to support
reasoning about action. After detailing their microtheories for topics such as semantic
analysis, basic coreference, and situational reasoning, McShane and Nirenburg turn to
agent applications developed using those microtheories and evaluations of a LEIA's
language understanding capabilities.
McShane and Nirenburg argue that the only way to achieve human-level language
understanding by machines is to place linguistics front and center, using statistics and
big data as contributing resources. They lay out a long-term research program that
addresses linguistics and real-world reasoning together, within a comprehensive cognitive
architecture.
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5042/Linguistics-for-the-Age-of-AI