Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software system written in Java that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos.
A more detailed summary is available here and this is the project web site.
Getting computers to 'understand' language...
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I've been developing software to help computers associate language with perception. Here's a recent workshop paper if you're interested. More info on my site (see sig).
what is sweetcode?
Sweetcode reports innovative free software. "Innovative" means that the software reported here isn't just a clone of something else or a minor add-on to something else or a port of something else or yet another implementation of a widely recognized concept. (These are all perfectly fine and useful things, they're just not what this site is for.) "Free software" means "as in speech". Software reported on sweetcode should surprise you in some interesting way. "I didn't know you could do that" or "I never thought about that problem that way" or "What a strange way to do things".
This is not an all-encompassing directory, a project hosting service, a site for news in general, or a resource for community discussion. We don't report project updates (unless there's a previously unreported major new innovation); if you see something you like and want to track its progress, you should use the available tools on Freshmeat or Sourceforge for doing so.
We're unlikely to report anything that shows up on Slashdot, NTK or other ridiculously popular sites which everyone reads already. Finally, this should be obvious, but the projects reported here are generally not affiliated with sweetcode. We just link 'em.
In contrast to the chatterbot quest, I've been working on software to provide computers with a more humanlike understanding of language.
Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software system written in Java that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos.
A more detailed summary is available here and this is the project web site.
While I think some of the chatterbox work is important to NLP, I've been working to get computers to learn & understand language based on visual perception. More info here.
Did you know that ICANN requires you to have a physical address in your registrar record? Someone tried take one of my ".net" domains on a technicality because I had a P.O. Box listed. More info here.
1957, the first hard drive was introduced as a component of IBM's RAMAC 350. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes (million bytes, abbreviated MB) of data and cost roughly $35,000 a year to lease - or $7,000 per megabyte per year. For years, hard disk drives were confined to mainframe and minicomputer installations. Vast "disk farms" of giant 14- and 8-inch drives costing tens of thousands of dollars each whirred away in the air conditioned isolation of corporate data centers.
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Pick me! Pick me! Oh, wait a second... my project isn't popular and no one contributes to it.
Seems like the parties in involved will be hacking the hell out of CVS to prove chicken or egg...Oh yeah? I wrote that code back in 1933!
Off I go to starting coding a FORTRAN port...
Just last week, NerdTreeHouse, a popular gaming site, started posting tech news.
A more detailed summary is available here and this is the project web site.
Compared to proprietary systems such as Ai's HAL, Meaningful Machines Knowledge Engine, and Lobal Technologies LAD, EBLA is the only system to incorporate grounded/perceptual understanding of language.
I've been developing software to help computers associate language with perception. Here's a recent workshop paper if you're interested. More info on my site (see sig).
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what is sweetcode?
Sweetcode reports innovative free software. "Innovative" means that the software reported here isn't just a clone of something else or a minor add-on to something else or a port of something else or yet another implementation of a widely recognized concept. (These are all perfectly fine and useful things, they're just not what this site is for.) "Free software" means "as in speech". Software reported on sweetcode should surprise you in some interesting way. "I didn't know you could do that" or "I never thought about that problem that way" or "What a strange way to do things".
This is not an all-encompassing directory, a project hosting service, a site for news in general, or a resource for community discussion. We don't report project updates (unless there's a previously unreported major new innovation); if you see something you like and want to track its progress, you should use the available tools on Freshmeat or Sourceforge for doing so.
We're unlikely to report anything that shows up on Slashdot, NTK or other ridiculously popular sites which everyone reads already. Finally, this should be obvious, but the projects reported here are generally not affiliated with sweetcode. We just link 'em.
...Then the mechanic said, "Looks like you blew a seal." "No, no", the Eskimo replied, "that's just mayonnaise!"
More importantly, it will just make all the geek headlines messy. You'll see an update on freshmeat and have to double-check which product it is for.
Click me! Click me!
They are in the early stages of making a movie of The Greatest American Hero.
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I have back problems too so I suppose I'm out of the running for his slot.
I tried to add my book, but there was no submit form - even after I created an account. Got a PHP error message so maybe its just /.ed.
Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software system written in Java that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to generate descriptions of novel videos.
A more detailed summary is available here and this is the project web site.
I was once forced by pirates to use Microsoft software. Will that get me any sort of discount?
While I think some of the chatterbox work is important to NLP, I've been working to get computers to learn & understand language based on visual perception. More info here.
Did you know that ICANN requires you to have a physical address in your registrar record? Someone tried take one of my ".net" domains on a technicality because I had a P.O. Box listed. More info here.
When are these so called scientists & astronomers going to give up on this whole "planet called Mars" bit?
But will it enlarge my penis?
Yeah - I should have posted the link. Unfortunately, the page launched popups and I figured they would annoy the crap out of everyone.
1957, the first hard drive was introduced as a component of IBM's RAMAC 350. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes (million bytes, abbreviated MB) of data and cost roughly $35,000 a year to lease - or $7,000 per megabyte per year. For years, hard disk drives were confined to mainframe and minicomputer installations. Vast "disk farms" of giant 14- and 8-inch drives costing tens of thousands of dollars each whirred away in the air conditioned isolation of corporate data centers.
The Cryptix site was actually updated since my submission to announce an updated snapshot of OpenPGP. You can download it here.
The CEO of Lindows should legally change his name to "Bill Gates."
I taught computers to learn nouns and verbs based on visual perception this year. See here for more info.