The Next Step

I haven’t posted here in a while. I have spent the last few months, heads down working on a semantic model of English.

The model I am using is a rule-of-twenty profile system for words in which the following 20 characteristics are put in a different order for each word.

• A – area
• B – Biological
• C – Change
• D – Directive
• E – Express
• F – Feeling (and sensing)
• G – Good
• H – Human
• I – Incident
• J – Jump (movement)
• K – Kind (type)
• L – language
• M – Mental
• N – Number
• O – Object
• P – Physical
• Q – Quality
• R – Resource
• S – System – (and relationship)
• T – Temporal
• U – Ugly (bad, negative)

The first two letters applied to each word, worked well. They have been very useful at grouping my 5000 words into large (for the first letter) and small (for the first two letters) groups. When I try to apply a third letter to semantically characterize each individual word, the system falls down. The three letters that best describe a word do not include enough semantic information to define the word. I can use the system for signature recognition between words and situations but not as direct definitions.

To do precise definitions I will need to divide the words into groups and build a different profile system for each group. What I am thinking of doing is dividing my 5000 words into 62 groups of about 80 words each. That's enough words in each group to demand a profile system of 20 characteristics.

With this next step in mind, I now have a plan for four interlocking modeling systems, integrated by using conversion profiles. The four systems are:

1. my history model
2. my model of English
3. the terrain model
4. a new situation model

I have the situation model still to build. It will be comprised of 62 models of 80 words each. I have thought of a few already. One will be a model of ‘meta conversational statements’ - comments about a conversation. For example “How do you define that work you just used”? One will probably be ‘countries’. One will probably be ‘street level terrain - towns - villages etc.’. The conversion profiles will provide the signature recognition necessary to make the word descriptions I have made already meaningful in game terms. I hope.

As you can see I am just starting to think of what these 60 or so groups may be. They will be based on game situations, and therefore very game oriented.

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