Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 8

[Eight.]

Lu Zhenyu did not expect that he would be evaluated so highly.

For the next few days, he has been busy studying linguistics.

Until October 12, a strange call came to his mobile phone.

“Hello. Is it Lu Zhenyu?” Another unfamiliar middle-aged male voice.

“Yes. Who are you?”

“I’m Fang Zhiqiang from the Chinese Department of Fudan University. My daughter’s classmate told me that you have some linguistic questions to answer.”

“Yes. Are you Fang Youjun’s father?”

“Yeah, don’t you, please call me uncle.”

“Okay, uncle, I want to talk to you face to face, when is it convenient for you?”

“I’m in your school now, when you arrive I’ll be waiting for you in the tea room next to the Xinxin Book Club. Lu Yin and Jun’er will come over in a while.”

“Okay.” After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhenyu hurriedly went out.

When Lu Zhenyu arrived at the tea room, Lu Yin and Jun’er had already arrived. A middle-aged man with gray hair was wearing a pair of extremely old black-rimmed glasses.

Two young women were sitting with a middle-aged man with a very academic temperament, looking rather strange.

“Hello, uncle. Lu Yin, Jun’er, how are you.” After greeting, Lu Zhenyu sat down.

Fang Zhiqiang didn’t have much politeness, and asked directly: “The Chinese department of this university is also very strong, why don’t you go to the school for help?”

Lv Zhenyu said: “First of all, I’m just a freshman. Even if I report this project to the school, no one will believe that I have the ability to do it well. If I report it, I don’t know how many people will think that I am overkill. , is a lunatic. However, I know that I have the opportunity to do this project well. Although I am not 100% sure, I also did not rashly propose this project. Secondly, even if the school thinks this project is good, I am not sure that the school will definitely do it. Let me lead the direction of this project, regardless of the teachers of the Chinese Department, even if I have my own department and college, how many experts have to point fingers? The point is, the more they point fingers, the more likely the project will fail. The last reason is that I already have the core technology myself, and I have no plans to make wedding dresses for others.”

Lu Zhenyu said confidently.

Fang Zhiqiang nodded and asked, “What is the core technology you’re talking about?”

“Artificial intelligence. One of the key aspects of developing such an engine now lies in intelligent judgment. I have an artificial intelligence core developed by myself. The problem is that I don’t know how to use this core in key places.”

“Artificial intelligence? You developed it independently? Can you let me see it?” Although Fang Zhiqiang studies linguistics, he can see that he is quite interested widely.

And Lu Zhenyu’s words have also aroused the interest of Jun’er and Lu Yin.

Lu Zhenyu saw the notebook bag at Jun’er’s feet and asked, “Can I use your notebook?”

Jun’er nodded, she looked extremely well-behaved in front of her father, and she was not at all famous in high school.” little witch”.

After she turned it on, she pushed the notebook in front of Lu Zhenyu.

Lv Zhenyu took out a USB flash drive from his pocket, copied a program to the computer, entered the password, and started the program, he explained: “This is my achievement at this stage, combining the intelligent core with a part of Chinese that I can understand. The grammar is combined to compile a sentence-making program. The interface is written temporarily because it is my own test.

I don’t care too much. Enter the words to be used to make a sentence in the upper box, and the complete sentence will be displayed in the lower box. Because sentence making is an unpredictable random process, I have set a button on the side, and I don’t care about the sentence. Satisfied can be replaced.

In terms of sentence patterns, there are only declarative sentences, general interrogative sentences, special interrogative sentences, imperative sentences and rhetorical questions, which I have not written yet.

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The core of Lu Zhenyu’s program is a small piece of code separated from Xiaoyu’s main program. The function of this small piece of code is almost negligible compared to Xiaoyu’s main body, which has a 60g space now. , but used in such a simple intelligent program, it already feels like killing a chicken with a knife. This code alone has surpassed the international leading level of artificial intelligence by a lot. This small program named “Grade 3” , the ability to make sentences is almost comparable to that of third-grade elementary school students, but they do not have the ability to make common sense judgments. Although the sentences they make have no problems in grammar, sometimes the meaning is very funny. This kind of sentence construction is very Think of a game that some people like to play. Several people, each write a part of a sentence, and then randomly combine them into a pile of funny materials.

However, Fang Zhiqiang, Lu Yin, and Jun Er are very interested. Input all kinds of vocabulary over and over again, and see the very interesting sentences in the box below.

“If this thing is really for elementary school students, it will be troublesome, and it should be no problem to fool the Chinese teacher.

Fang Zhiqiang commented.

“The function of this small program is just to test my staged results, and there will be no more copies.”

”

Actually, it’s already very powerful that you can do this. Where do you think I can help you?”

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“Uncle, there are a lot of software for voice input and language output on the market. I won’t mention the voice output. Basically, it is generated continuously according to the pronunciation of each word. Better software may also have light reading of function words, but There is no change in tone and tone. The problem of voice input is more complicated. On the one hand, for the recognition rate of voice, the best one is viavoice developed a few years ago, and the requirements for input devices are not low. Moreover, voice After inputting, there is no problem with instant words, broken sentences, and punctuation. Basically, after voice input, it has to be rewritten manually, which is even less efficient than typing by hand. I think that by learning some linguistics, you can I found a solution to this problem, but linguistics is really a very strange theory, the more materials I read, the less I know how to start.” Lu Zhenyu said.

“Let’s put it this way, from the perspective of linguistics, we need to solve this recognition problem. Everyone understands this. I have also participated in a project called ‘language generation, recognition and coding’. At present, all machine recognition is based on For words and sounds, grammar is a subordinate position, because the grammar of Chinese is too different from other languages, and the regularity is not obvious. Although most of the laws used in modern Chinese can be summed up according to the Western grammar paradigm, but This is not enough. The speech recognition of words, the resulting material, is arranged and combined by the grammar module. And the punctuation mark, which the machine cannot add by itself, because there is no function of sentence segmentation. This is also called machine linguistics based on speech.”

“Then there is no solution?” Lu Zhenyu asked.

“Saussure has a sentence in “General Linguistics Course” that sound is separated from written symbols and is just some vague concept. But there is another sentence, the more words do not express the language it should express, the more The tendency of people to take it as a foundation is increasing. … These two sentences have the same core, which is the text, and on either side of the text are the phonetics and semantics. I think the main bottleneck now is that the language Recognition intelligence stays at the stage of speech to text, and from text to semantics, one needs to operate by himself. Semantics is a very complicated thing, UU Kanshu www.sonicmtl.com With the artificial intelligence you have now, You can definitely make software that can better understand the semantics and then correct the text. As you just said, what your sentence-making program lacks is the common sense level. If you add this piece, it will improve the performance of speech recognition. Is the interpretation complete? No, because common sense itself is a flexible thing. We have been using many expressions that do not conform to common sense. You can call it a rhetorical device, but we can always understand it. Yes, why? Because our use of language, whether in written or phonetic form, is based on a basic use environment, which is called pragmatics. Only under the premise of pragmatics can semantics be complete.” Fang Zhiqiang’s statement has been very Very simple, most of the concepts are not explained, but the strong adaptability of Chinese is also reflected from these terms, no explanation is needed, I believe Lu Zhenyu can also understand the general meaning, and in this situation, a general understanding is enough. .

Lu Zhenyu recalled Fang Zhiqiang’s words, thought over and over, and suddenly said: “Does that mean that if such an engine can be developed based on semantics and pragmatics, and then combined with the existing results of speech recognition, it can be compared Is it perfect?”

Fang Zhiqiang said with admiration: “That’s right, as long as you can do it. It’s not easy. But as long as you can program the pragmatic and semantic aspects, the phonetic problem is just a small problem, what kind of phonetics? You don’t need to take things too seriously.”

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