Re: distributional knowledge representation
Thanks for the comments, Rich. I'll reply off-line so as not to clog the list.
If anyone is interested drop me a line and I'll cc you.
-Rob
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 00:14, Rich Cooper wrote:
> Rob Freeman wrote:
> > In an earlier post I mentioned work on the indefinability of "meaning" by
> > Adam
> > Kilgarriff at ITRI Brighton. I said I wasn't sure if he was still working
> > with distributional approaches to knowledge representation.
> >
> > It seems he is. If anyone is interested they can check out some of his
> > more
> > recent work here:
> >
> > www.sketchengine.co.uk
>
> The sketch engine seems to have some value in identifying and tabulating
> some properties of words in a corpus. Thanks for the URL, Rob.
>
> > Also along these lines is the following distributed "concept discovery"
> > system, which may be of interest.
> >
> > www.leximancer.com
> >
> > -Rob Freeman
>
> The concept engine is a beautiful presentation, but how is that helpful
> when building an NLP application? I can see how it helps a human operator
> to cluster similar concepts in a graphical way, but is there something that
> I'm missing about how to mechanize that "similarity" in a NLP Q&A system?
>
> Nice pointers,
> Rich