The Natural Language Understanding Global Initiative (NLUGI) has the goal of creating linguistic knowledge, world knowledge, and digital human readers for all major human languages using the open-source natural language development environment (NLDE) NLP++, VisualText, and the Conceptual Grammar.
Next Revolution in Human Langauge
This effort represents the 5th revolution in human language: the migration of knowledge and the use of that knowledge by computers.
Objectives
- To reintroduce engineered Natural Language Understanding systems back into universities and industry.
- To build the foundation to create trustworthy digital human readers that are equal or better than humans at understanding text for specific tasks.
Philosophy
- Linguistic and world knowledge must be given to computers since symbol and word meaning is arbitrary and cannot be found statistically.
- Intelligent programs must understand text the same way as humans.
- Digital Human Readers must be 100% code and their outputs 100% explainable to be trusted.
- A common computing language like NLP++ is essential for the success of the NLU Global Initiative.
