Computers That Can Paraphrase
from the who-needs-writers? dept
If you read enough news articles, you begin to notice certain similarities and patterns, such that certain lines practically write themselves. Now, some computer science researchers are working on a program that might write those sentences itself. Actually, the system is designed to take news articles and try to paraphrase them. With simple, straightforward, short articles it appears to do a pretty good job, but can't handle longer or more complex stories. Certainly seems like an interesting project that has a variety of potential uses, from creating automated summaries of stories to providing alternative phrasing. Just imagine, a few years from now, instead of just having spell check, grammar checks and thesauruses, you might be able to replace whole phrases in Word documents with suggested alternatives, making our writing blander than ever before.
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computational linguistics
[1] take a passage in English and translate it to another language. Pass back and forth juggling the results between the two languages.
[2]take same passage and do a stir-fry by passing from one language to the next without reusing a language. Pass result back to original language.
Here is an example of [juggling] after 5 iterations of english to spanish and back
Here is an example of stir-fry] starting with same english passage, translating to german to french back to english 3 times
You can try this yourself at: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
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remember this sort of thing from IBM...
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remember this sort of thing from IBM...
Oops, should always preview...
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No Subject Given
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Re: No Subject Given
So long as schools are a 'state sponsered daycare' for the under 18 crowd, the manditory passing will continue.
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