*Perfect* This is exactly what I was intending (i.e. using google/web as an input device to symbolically build relation constructs to evolve dictionary definitions -- more than simply searching for preformed definitions)
If I may, anyone out there have ideas on what other linguistic constructs can be self formed based on the massive web corpus as a simple input device? We already have:
Using Google Groups, it is pretty close to using a thesaurus. Personally, it is one of the most fruitful advances I've ever seen from the net. Being of AI-mind...
My question to all -- so how far are we, I ask to you master linguists + computer scientists, before we will have self forming dictionaries based strictly on cached google data?
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*Perfect* This is exactly what I was intending (i.e. using google/web as an input device to symbolically build relation constructs to evolve dictionary definitions -- more than simply searching for preformed definitions)
If I may, anyone out there have ideas on what other linguistic constructs can be self formed based on the massive web corpus as a simple input device? We already have:
Sets (via Google's Sets)
Dictionary (via earlier link)
Thesaurus (via Google's Sets + tweaks)
Grammar
Self forming Encyclopedia
Self forming identity databases (e.g. Googlezon hype)
and thus,
Concsciousness?
-o- Geoff Peters
My question to all -- so how far are we, I ask to you master linguists + computer scientists, before we will have self forming dictionaries based strictly on cached google data?
two years?
-o- Geoff Peters