There will be a revolution. As the history of mankind witnesses the developments of handwritten text to technique of hyper text - writing that interacts with needs and desires of the readers, we are to see more to come in our time that changes the world in every decades a step forward with surprises. Indeed, technology is more magical than any magic we have seen so far.
"There is a good etymological reason to be broadening our definition of technology to include skills as well as machines. The Greek root of "technology" is techne, and the Greeks techne could be an art or craft, " a set of rules, system of method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts" (Liddelll and Scott, 1973, p.1785).
Jay David Bolter wrote, "In the ancient world physical technology was simpler, and the ancient world physical technology skill of the craftsman-the potter, the stone-mason, or the carpenter" (Bolter, 1991, p.35).
With those words above, today I feel confident enough to say that we have come a long way and time has come up with yet another technological surprise. The news is that the natural languages are well in position and within our reach to be applied for communications of ideas that artificial languages can translate with great precision, in their function as a mode of transmission of logical data.
Efforts to create schemata designed to parallel logical relations with relations expressed by the syntax and semantics of a natural language is a good possibility and a great start, most likely to come out to the public with a bang from advanced Labs around the globe, one of such is NASA.
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Researchers are initially discourged by the fact that a great volume of work needed to link betwen today’s linguistic expressions and artificial intelligence to use as computer processing language. However, there is at least one language 'Sanskrit' which is almost 1000 years old and which is still being tought to Indian students, was a living spoken language with a considerable literature of its own can fill the gap and be essentially a ‘text technology’ tool for future natural language processing system to be performed on computer data processing’s tasks.
"Besides works of literary value, there was a long philosophical and grammatical tradition that has continued to exist with undiminished vigor until the present century. Among the accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in essence but in form with current work in Artificial Intelligence." (Artificial Intelligence —Sanskrit— The Age of Information — NASA — Knowledge Representation, Accessed Oct. 2005, NASA on Sanskrit, Artificial Intelligence by Rick Briggs). In this research topic I would like to discuss the idea and the possibilities of a successful outcome using such a millennia old natural language to command a machine's processing systems.
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