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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. This is stupid.... by dteichman2 · · Score: -1, Troll

    really.

    Not only is this almost impossible to do, it's also pointless. Don't mention the fact that they can't even use proper English.

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