An Enactivist Account of Mind Reading in Natural Language Understanding

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article presents an innovative solution to the understanding of natural language. Unfortunately the article presents only a philosophical discussion of the problem but lacks any idea of how this idea could be applied.

Author Response

Thanks for taking the time to read the paper.  I am disappointed that the algorithm presented is not clear.  I will modify the paper to include a figure with the "cheap trick" in it, and then explain how that relates to the philosophy.  Hopefully that will make the paper much better.

Reviewer 2 Report

I am not an expert in this field of research but overall the paper looks good. However, I suggest the author to carefully check the English. At least some places needs improvement for better reading.

Author Response

Thanks for taking the time to review this.  After some time away from the text, I am sure I will be able to spot the issues and resolve them.

Reviewer 3 Report

The paper is about how natural language understanding and how the traditional ways we see it and how have been doing it cannot explain all the language phenomena we'd like to be able to handle.

The paper is very well written and easy to follow. I believe it is well worth publishing even if the paper doesn't exactly include big novel findings. This paper can still be valuable to rather large audience as it basically summarises the state of the art NLU and dialogue management.

As someone who worked on dialogue systems in the 90's, I found this paper very enjoyable read.

 

Author Response

Thank you.  I feel the history is an important part of the paper because without knowing the history, people will continue to think the obvious solutions are the only ones and continue to re-invent the wheel.

I do feel there is a significant novel finding, but the algorithm is trivial and hence i am not sure how to present it.  I will give it another go.