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TY - GEN ID - cogprints1798 UR - http://cogprints.org/1798/ A1 - Turney, Peter TI - Answering Subcognitive Turing Test Questions: A Reply to French Y1 - 2001/08// N2 - Robert French has argued that a disembodied computer is incapable of passing a Turing Test that includes subcognitive questions. Subcognitive questions are designed to probe the network of cultural and perceptual associations that humans naturally develop as we live, embodied and embedded in the world. In this paper, I show how it is possible for a disembodied computer to answer subcognitive questions appropriately, contrary to French�s claim. My approach to answering subcognitive questions is to use statistical information extracted from a very large collection of text. In particular, I show how it is possible to answer a sample of subcognitive questions taken from French, by issuing queries to a search engine that indexes about 350 million Web pages. This simple algorithm may shed light on the nature of human (sub-) cognition, but the scope of this paper is limited to demonstrating that French is mistaken: a disembodied computer can answer subcognitive questions. AV - public KW - subcognitive questions KW - Turing Test KW - PMI-IR KW - co-occurrence KW - word associations KW - mutual information. ER -