About

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.

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

David de Hilster, founder of the NLU Global Initiative and co-architect of NLP++
  • 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 is essential for the success of the NLU Global Initiative.

Tasks

  • Create linguistic and domain dictionaries for all the major human languages.
  • Create knowledge bases for specific domains.
  • Create digital human readers to perform productive and useful tasks.

History

NLUGI was created by the authors of NLP++, VisualText, and the Conceptual grammar and is supported by individuals, universities, and industry.

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