Natural Language Processing for State Security

Roland Piquepaille writes "Obviously, computers can't have an opinion. What computers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information. This branch of natural-language processing (NLP) is called 'information extraction' and is used for sorting facts and opinions for Homeland Security. Right now, a consortium of three universities is for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which doesn't have enough in-house expertise in NLP. Read more for additional references and a diagram showing how information extraction is used."

Comments

Moo

[Chacham]

What comptuers are very good at, though,

.... is spell-checking.....

....something, apparently, the editors are not good at....

Re:Moo

[ceoyoyo]

Maybe Roland had a stroke over the weekend. Sure he's self serving, but at least he's usually literate. That sentence about the universities didn't even make sense!

Re:Moo

[Anonymous Coward]

Right now, a consortium of three universities is for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which doesn't have enough in-house expertise in NLP.

Yeah, but like the editors, computers also suck at grammar checking. What the fuck does that sentence even mean?

Yes, computers are great at spell checking

[Colin Smith]

That doesn't stop the really determined idiot though. Oh no.

        I have a spelling checker,
        It came with my PC.
        It plane lee marks four my revue
        Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

        Eye ran this poem threw it,
        Your sure reel glad two no.
        Its vary polished in it's weigh.
        My checker tolled me sew.

        A checker is a bless sing,
        It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
        It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
        And aides me when eye rime.

        Each frays come posed up on my screen
        Eye trussed too bee a joule.
        The checker pours o'er every word
        To cheque sum spelling rule.

        Bee fore a veiling checker's
        Hour spelling mite decline,
        And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
        We wood bee maid too wine.

        Butt now bee cause my spelling
        Is checked with such grate flare,
        Their are know fault's with in my cite,
        Of nun eye am a wear.

        Now spelling does knot phase me,
        It does knot bring a tier.
        My pay purrs awl due glad den
        With wrapped word's fare as hear.

        To rite with care is quite a feet
        Of witch won should bee proud,
        And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
        Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

        Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
        Such soft wear four pea seas,
        And why eye brake in two averse
        Buy righting want too pleas.

  -- "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise"
By Jerrold H. Zar, Northern Illinois University
Journal of Irreproducible Results 39, 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1994): 13

Wow!

[Anonymous Coward]

What great breaking news! Praise be to Roland P. for his insight!

Aha!

[suv4x4]

Obviously, computers can't have an opinion.

Welcome the new opinion-based CAPTCHA-s!

Re:Number 891224

[ikkonoishi]

Number 979071 has expressed an interest in Emperors, incident reported to George Lucas

one thing

[shack420]

another thing Rolands computer is not very good at is spell checking his posts!

The impossible just takes more tax dollars

[Anonymous Coward]

Next up: Solving the halting problem to prevent child pornography, finding Osama by solving the traveling salesman problem in constant time, defeating global warming with the Turing test, and using learning computers to stop illegal immigration!

Bushed

[Anne Thwacks]

You mean it was not the computers that voted for George W Bush? Then who the hell did?