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Read Me, Love Me!!

archimago — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:32:35 -0800

WordNet: "an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets." What does one do with WordNet?

By: ethylene

ethylene — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:54:57 -0800

wow. lots that i can think of. too much to go on about right now. thanks for the link!

By: strangeleftydoublethink

strangeleftydoublethink — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:00:20 -0800

I was trying to figure ou the same thing the other day. Hopefully, ethylene will return with a list.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:34:28 -0800

filter!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:48:20 -0800

Sense 3 trickle, dribble, filter Clearly this site should be renamed MetaDribble.

By: callmejay

callmejay — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:05:31 -0800

What does one do with WordNet? Lots of computational linguistics.

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:07:09 -0800

... the same thing you use Hyperspace Analogue to Language or Latent Semantic Analysis for... which is the analysis of extremely large volumes of text for 'meaning'. I have no idea why anyone, including the military, would be interested in such a thing.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:52:02 -0800

3-3.) Under Windows, the "Print" button is missing when I "Find keywords by substring" and "Print current display" is not found under the "File" menu. The printing functions are not available in the version of WordNet that runs under Windows. The documentation included in the package erroneously implies that printing is available on all platforms. Bummer.

By: effugas

effugas — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:53:23 -0800

Wordnet's site used to be much, much cooler. You could give it any two words, and it would quite literally find a route between them. For example: Cow -> Bullet Cow IS AN Animal HAS blood CONTAINS iron COMPOSES A bullet. I assume there's some way to revive this functionality, but I can't find it.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:01:28 -0800

effugas: are you sure you weren't thinking of Lexical FreeNet? I used it to make a search engine front-end.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:20:03 -0800

These seem like great tools for building a slightly more interesting (if not necessarily coherent) chat bot.

By: donfactor

donfactor — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 15:29:28 -0800

When people try to communicate the meaning of the message usually falls somewhere between them. Nobody ever totally understands what somebody else means. And for that matter seldom do we know the extent of what we actually mean ourselves when we speak or write. ambiguity rules, know what I mean? This site can help. Thanks

By: effugas

effugas — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:07:56 -0800

Sonofsamiam, You're my hero. I've been trying to track down LexFN for years. Wouldn't happen to have any interest in developing a linguistic toolkit for cryptographic key representation, now would ya? :-)

By: reklaw

reklaw — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:51:30 -0800

Surely this could be of some use in machine translation? Most of the errors I see in translations seem to be with it thinking a word is being used in a different sense to how it's actually being used.

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:17:05 -0800

... nor is it likely that anybody would be filtering large quantities of data before giving flagged content to human analysts for further in-depth examination.

By: bragadocchio

bragadocchio — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:58:01 -0800

It's possible that Google has been using some type of latent semantic indexing to display text ads in the right context on pages that display those google ads. It's also possible that Google and other search engines, are, or will be, using something similar in their indexing of pages on the web.

By: Singular

Singular — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:21:29 -0800

bragadocchio: I'm not sure exactly which methods are deployed, but there are certainly plenty of people in the research community using semantic representations in information retrieval. My personal opinion is some such representation is essential, although I generally dislike the use of knowledge base systems like WordNet - I'd prefer to see a system which could learn a low dimensional representation from data. In some sense, pseudorelevance feedback falls into that category - an idea which has been around for years and is very widely used.