Paraphrasing Sentences With Software

prostoalex writes "Cornell University researchers are making progress in paraphrasing and "understanding" complete sentences in a software application. Analyzing sentences on the semantic level allows the software application to treat two sentences, expressing similar thoughts and ideas, but written in a different manner, as a single semantic unit. Significant achievements in this area could revolutionize the information searching field."

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Imagine a beowulf cluster of this

Imagine John Ashcroft, Admiral Poindexter, and the National Security Agency using a Beowulf cluster of these to scan everybody's email.

I wonder if there's a Bayesian filter that picks out athiests, free-thinkers, commies, anti-war activists, and Democrats.

Pass that list through a geo-locator, and the thought police can be at your door by midnight. (According to Solzhenitsyn, they always knock on your door at midnight.)