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Determining word senses from grammatical usage

Posted by: linasv on: 2009-01-12

I’ve recently been tinkering with a mechanism for determining word senses based on their grammatical usage.  This has me pretty excited, because, so far, it seems to be reasonably accurate (i.e. not terrible), and lightning-fast.  I’m doing this by doing some heavy statistical NLP work, computing statistical correlations between word senses and syntax — specifically, [...]

Hacking on Link-Grammar

Posted by: linasv on: 2008-08-17

I hack, heads-down, on link-grammar every now and then. Yesterday, I fixed another round of broken parse rules: making sure that sentences like “John is altogether amazingly quick.” “That one is marginally better” “I am done working” “I asked Jim a question” “I was told that crap, too” all parse correctly.
Solving these required adding new [...]

Mapping Wordnet, RelEx to OpenCog

Posted by: linasv on: 2008-05-05

I spent the afternoon creating a formalized mapping from RelEx and Wordnet to OpenCog. The goal is to clean things up enough so that I can run word-sense disambiguation code with opencog itself. Now, one thing that was nagging me is that this is, in some sense, the hard-way forward — I could just [...]


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  • jasonforceau: Hi, i am looking for tools for syntactic analysis for the system of my Final Year Project and found your post so interesting. But I don't know Link-Gr
  • linasv: These graphs were discussed on the corpora mailing list in March 2009. See http://mailman.uib.no/public/corpora/2009-March/008193.html and followups i
  • linasv: Martin Reynaert wrote to say: ''From what I have learned from the work of mainly Ramon Ferrer i Cancho ( http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~rferrericancho/p