[yen223]

FWIW that's not a crossword puzzle. As a crossword enthusiast, I would be very interested in the implementation of an AI-backed crossword puzzle solver!

[skellystudios]

For my masters thesis I wrote some software to solve UK-style cryptic crosswords[1].

We're cleaning up the code now for release as an AI paper, so as soon as we're done I'll release the code on Github.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_crossword

[bvm]

What a great idea. What's your success rate like?

Cryptic crosswords (at least good ones) play with conventions so much, I imagine it must be quite a challenge.

[gjm11]

Excellent! How does its performance compare with Crossword Maestro (http://www.crosswordtools.com/cm/) which I think is the current state of the art?

[splike]

Just a thought, but I bet word2vec would be a pretty good starting point for a crossword solver

https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/