Assignment 09
Contents:
Overview
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Related Reading: Ch. 10.1-10.3, 10.6-10.7 of [Br];
Mod. 9 of [DH].
Due: 8pm Monday, 19 November 2001
Internet Requirements
You will only need an internet connection at the time of submission.
Practice Problems
Problems to be Submitted (20 points)
- (10 points)
Many statements in a natural language, such as English, contain
ambiguity for a variety of reasons. As humans, we can often (though
not always) distinguish between possible meanings. Resovling such
ambiguities is a great challenge for software.
The [DH] text and the lecture notes discuss several sources
of ambiguity. Several examples for each of these can be found in the
lecture notes.
For each of the five types of ambiguity below we want you to do the following.
- Syntactic ambiguity
- Semantic ambiguity
- The need for contextual information
- The need for rules of conversation
- The need for real-world, topical knowledge
- (10 points)
Pages 488-489 of [Br] provides eight different questions involving
social implications of Artificial Intelligence.
Please choose any two of these eight questions. Answer these two
questions using (roughly) one-half page for each answer.
Overall, please place your answers to all of these questions in a
single document to be submitted.
Extra Credit (3 points)
Carefully read Ch. 10.3 of [Br] regarding production
systems. You may look at the Chapter exercises on p. 458 for
practice.
Then answer Chapter 10 Review Problem 23 (p. 486 [Br]).
In answering this question you must do each of the following:
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