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New Algorithm for Learning Languages

Posted by samzenpus on from the universal-translator dept.

An anonymous reader writes "U.S. and Israeli researchers have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text in any of a number of languages, including English and Chinese, and autonomously and without previous information infer the underlying rules of grammar. The rules can then be used to generate new and meaningful sentences. The method also works for such data as sheet music or protein sequences."

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  1. Re:Didn't Google already do this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i find that hard to believe that none of the programmers new a form of chinese.

  2. Re:Woah by uberdave · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Problem is that dupes and typos are so common here, that the algorithm would consider them part of the language.

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  3. Re:yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're a friggin retard... Are you saying a posotronic net has exactly 999,001 components? Do you think that this new technology runs off of positronics, as opposed to electronics?

    Go suck on a sausage, you fucking moron!

  4. Re:Speaking as someone working on NLP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Noam Chompsky is a communist fuckwit.

  5. Re:just thought.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please, save the congratulations until you know for certain that it took a few Israelis with it.