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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]