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by spitfire 5597 days ago
You aren't joking. I took a few minutes and wrote up a bayesian engine in mathematica. I've got a pretty good start on that already, and as the IBM stuff notes it's embarrassingly parallel. It seems to me the entire problem is parsing. If you can parse well and feed a well formed input to your data layer (and you've fed it enough data) you're golden.

So who wants to build a real Q/A site based on this? Call it hal-18000.
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paganel 5597 days ago
> So who wants to build a real Q/A site based on this? Call it hal-18000.

You'd have to learn it to deal with thick accents like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ . Honestly, I don't know if that's possible, no matter how much training you'd put into the machine.

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khafra 5597 days ago
Natural Language Processing != Voice Recognition.
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paganel 5597 days ago
> Natural Language Processing != Voice Recognition

This is what I don't get, why should be "language processing" tied to written text? Part of the answer I know, because it's easier for computers to parse, but other than that it doesn't make sense.

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gloob 5597 days ago
Speech recognition is speech recognition. Different problem entirely.
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