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Mining Neologisms from Wikipedia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everchanging-face-of-net-slang dept.

holy_calamity writes "Natual Language Programming researchers have developed a tool called Zeitgeist that can discover the meaning of new words for itself using Wikipedia. It looks for entries for words not in the WordNet database and works out their meaning by looking for known words linked to them. Development of the tool is focusing on using it to understand what bloggers (using slang and neologisms) are saying about companies' products."

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  1. Id love to see what it came up with... by mdhoover · · Score: 5, Funny

    if they pointed it at slashdot...
    "ass-hat" and "tard" could take on a whole new meaning

  2. What if it went in to a loop by clickclickdrone · · Score: 5, Funny

    and started creating its own gazornaplatting words that no-one but the program itself could middlybundy? It could eat up bibblys of disk space as all the new words chimmdudlied in a grawn.

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