Language Intelligence as the Historical New Milestone of Artificial Language Intelligence Research:The Theoretical and Methodological Construction of Language Intelligence Science(Ⅳ)
Language,as as a special human intelligence,is divided into Natural Language Intelligence and Artificial Language Intelligence.While the former is embodied in the flesh,the latter is realized in the mechanical devices and is thus disembodied from the flesh.Nowadays,while linguistics is dedicated specifically to addressing Natural Language Intelligence,a couple of disciplines are dedicated to addressing Artificial Language Intelligence,including Machine Translation,Computational Linguistics,and Natural Language Processing.The present study,by approaching this field of inquiry from the viewpoint of the discipline's growth in 10-30 years,examined the mainstream thoughts,theoretical timeline,methodological focus,technological logic,historical inheritance and future trends.A new tenet and claim was proposed that research on artificial language intelligence,which has gone through four historical milestones,namely Thought Utopia(Pre-Machine Translation),Pan-Machinerism(Machine Translation),Linguistics-dominated Symbolism(Computational Linguistics),Computer Science-dominated Connectionism(Natural Language Processing),is now embracing a brand new fifth milestone,namely,Intelligence Science-dominated Mechanism.In this respect,the newly-proposed concept Language Intelligence is the exact designator of this new historical peak.
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