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Deriving Semantic Meaning From Google Results

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-also-use-tea-leaves-if-google-not-available dept.

prostoalex writes "New Scientist talks about Paul Vitanyi and Rudi Cilibrasi of the National Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam and their work to extract meaning of words from Google's index. The pair demonstrates an unsupervised clustering algorithm, which 'distinguish between colours, numbers, different religions and Dutch painters based on the number of hits they return', according to New Scientist."

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  1. Well that's good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Because God knows I'd never be able to distinguish between dutch painters on my own

  2. Re:Semantic meaning? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Meaning could, in principle, mean 'affective meaning' as in the emotional weight something carries. Maybe Google are also working on emotional search engines and the article poster doesn't want us getting confused with that.

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  3. Re:Huh? by modifried · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google has determined the meaning of life: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=42&btnG=Googl e+Search

    I think you might've meant:
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+is+the+a nswer+to+life%2C+the+universe%2C+and+everything%3F

  4. Re:Language is more than words by Hal+XP · · Score: 2, Funny

    There ought to be a military regulation forbidding the use of anything other than "Yes," "No," or "I don't know, sir" in a combat situation. Right?

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