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Since the "Computational Intelligence" course (otherwise known as AI, but I think C.I. fits more appropriately) is only a half-semester long, the final project is upon me already.
Since the vast majority of students are Computing Science students and most of the other students are from other faculties that don't usually get exposed to programming (which includes Communications, a few from English, and even one or two Math students), the instructor had us pair up, starting with the non-CS students grabbing onto a CS student (for the programming experience), then letting the leftover CS students choose whomever was left.
Anyway, my teammate is from Communications, so he really knows his grammar, which will be important for the final project, which is a minimal medical Expert System written in Prolog that must be able to answer most English-language questions, including questions such as "What is the problem?" (in that example, it must ask several simple questions about the patient's condition and use some logical induction to deduce what the problem might be.
We've been given pretty much free reign as to the medical conditions we get to include, and we could even go so far as to make them up ourselves, but somehow I don't think we'll be doing anything like that...
I have to say that using Prolog has made many things much easier as far as English-phrase parsing, but you really need to be careful setting up the parser and designing the meaning representation so that it works easily with the rest of the response process.
I think that I might continue to use some of the parts from it (especially the phrase-parsing part) after the course is over for fun, which is something I can't say for most of the programs I've written for courses.
Since the vast majority of students are Computing Science students and most of the other students are from other faculties that don't usually get exposed to programming (which includes Communications, a few from English, and even one or two Math students), the instructor had us pair up, starting with the non-CS students grabbing onto a CS student (for the programming experience), then letting the leftover CS students choose whomever was left.
Anyway, my teammate is from Communications, so he really knows his grammar, which will be important for the final project, which is a minimal medical Expert System written in Prolog that must be able to answer most English-language questions, including questions such as "What is the problem?" (in that example, it must ask several simple questions about the patient's condition and use some logical induction to deduce what the problem might be.
We've been given pretty much free reign as to the medical conditions we get to include, and we could even go so far as to make them up ourselves, but somehow I don't think we'll be doing anything like that...
I have to say that using Prolog has made many things much easier as far as English-phrase parsing, but you really need to be careful setting up the parser and designing the meaning representation so that it works easily with the rest of the response process.
I think that I might continue to use some of the parts from it (especially the phrase-parsing part) after the course is over for fun, which is something I can't say for most of the programs I've written for courses.
