{"id":565,"date":"2013-06-27T10:26:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/?p=565"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T17:49:16","slug":"neat-vs-scruffy-and-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/27\/neat-vs-scruffy-and-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat vs. Scruffy and Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, John Sowa has commented on LinkedIn or in correspondence with some of us at <a href=\"http:\/\/coherentknowledge.com\" target=\"_blank\">Coherent Knowledge Systems<\/a> on the old adage due to Shanks concerning the Neats. vs. the Scruffies.\u00a0 The Neats want nice formal logics as the basis of artificial intelligence.\u00a0 This includes anyone who prefers classical logic (e.g., Common Logic, RIF-BLD, or SBVR) or standard ontologies (e.g., OWL-DL) for representing knowledge and reasoning with it.\u00a0 The Scruffies may use well-defined technology, but are not constrained by it.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll do whatever they think works, now, whether or not it is a good long term solution and despite its shortcomings, as long as it can obtain immediate objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Watson is scruffy.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t try to understand or formally represent knowledge.\u00a0 It combines a lot of effective technologies into an evidentiary framework that allows it to effectively &#8220;guess&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/15\/deep-question-answering-watson-vs-aristotle\/\">continued discussion<\/a> in the Natural Language Processing group on LinkedIn under the topic &#8220;This is Watson&#8221;, I&#8217;m posting the following <a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/documents\/AnybodyKnowBuddy.pptx\">presentation <\/a>on <a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/19\/project-sherlock\/\">Project Sherlock<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/29\/translating-english-into-logic-using-the-linguist\/\">Linguist <\/a>vs. Google and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the neat approach is more viable today than ever.\u00a0 So, chalk one up for the neats, including Dr. Sowa and Menno Mofait&#8217;s comment in that discussion.<\/p>\n<p>During a presentation at CMU after winning the game show,, IBM admitted that in order to get the last leg of improvement needed to win Jeopardy!, they needed to do some &#8220;neat&#8221; ontological knowledge acquisition, too!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/AnybodyKnowBuddy.png\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/AnybodyKnowBuddy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-566\" title=\"AnybodyKnowBuddy\" src=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/AnybodyKnowBuddy-1024x484.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/AnybodyKnowBuddy-1024x484.png 1024w, http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/AnybodyKnowBuddy-300x141.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, John Sowa has commented on LinkedIn or in correspondence with some of us at Coherent Knowledge Systems on the old adage due to Shanks concerning the Neats. vs. the Scruffies.\u00a0 The Neats want nice formal logics as the basis of artificial intelligence.\u00a0 This includes anyone who prefers classical logic (e.g., Common Logic, RIF-BLD, or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/27\/neat-vs-scruffy-and-watson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neat vs. Scruffy and Watson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[518,883,547,633,527,211,545],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-formal-logic","category-natural-language","tag-digital-aristotle","tag-formal-logic","tag-ibm-watson","tag-john-sowa","tag-linguist","tag-natural-language-processing","tag-project-sherlock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}