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New Programming Languages for Artificial Intelligence Research

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"New directions in Artificial Intelligence research have led to the need for certain novel features to be embedded in programming languages. This paper gives an overview of the nature of these features, and their implementation in four principal families of AI languages: SAIL; PLANNER/CONNIVER; QLISP/INTERLISP; and POPLER/POP-2. The programming featurcs described include: new data types and accessing mechanisms for stored expressions; more flexible control structures, including multiple processes and backtracking; pattern matching to allow comparison of data item with a template, and extraction of labeled subexpressions; and deductive mechanisms which allow the programming system to carry out certain activities including modifying the data base and deciding which subroutines to run next using only constraints and guidelines set up by the programmer." ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 1974, pp. 155 174.


Natural language understanding systems within the AI paradigm: A survey and some comparisons

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AI Memo 237, AI Laboratory, Stanford University. (Also in A. Zampolli, Ed., Linguistic structures processing. Amsterdam: North-Holland,






Learning by inductive inference

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NATO Advanced Study Institute an Computer Oriented Learning Processes, p. 15 pgs.


On Machine Intelligence

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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press


Minds, machines and phenomenology: Some reflections on Dreyfus’ What Computers Can’t Do

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Rather than provide a general review of Dreyfus critique this article concentrates on certain fundamental criticisms that Dreyfus directs at the information-processing approach to cognitive psychology and points out the unique conception of what it means to understand cognition which separates a phenomenologist from the typical cognitive psychologist.