US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 9, 2012 @07:13AM from the bright-ideas dept.

coondoggie writes "An innovative project, called Autonomous Dynamic Analysis of Metaphor and Analogy, or ADAMA, aims to build a software system that can automatically analyze metaphorical speech in five different languages by analyzing huge quantities of online data got off the ground this week when the U.S. Army Research Laboratory awarded a $1.4 million contract to the team conducting the research. The research is backed by the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), which develops high-risk, reward research projects for the government, and is intended to build a repository of speech metaphors from American/English Iranian Farsi, Mexican Spanish and Russian speakers. ADAMA could have immediate applications in forensics, intelligence analysis, business intelligence, sociological research and communication studies, researchers stated."

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Re:Well, isn't that... by gawaino · 2012-05-09 07:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?
Re:Well, isn't that... by sconeu · 2012-05-09 07:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Sokath! His eye open!

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Really bad title by SuperKendall · 2012-05-09 08:00 · Score: 1, Funny

When you write a story about an AI system and say it is "humming" then by God, the story had better contain a YouTube video of the AI humming a Beatles tune or something through a tinny PC speaker.
Merely being turned on does not mean it's singing.

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Re:Well, isn't that... by bwoneill · 2012-05-09 08:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra?
But, but, but .... with the project called ADAMA it should be from Battlestar Galactica.
Shaka! When the walls fell.