Computer AI works towards shattering language barrier
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The Internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words -- and gives the machines a vocabulary far larger than that of a typical US college graduate.Cognition Technologies began licensing the map Tuesday to software creators interested in having programs "understand" words based on tenses and sentence context -- in much the same way as the human brain does.
"We have taught the computer virtually all the meanings of words and phrases in the English language," Cognition chief executive Scott Jarus told AFP.
"This is clearly a building block for Web 3.0, or what is known as the Semantic Web. It has taken 30 years; it is a labor of love," Jarus said.
The semantic map is reportedly the world's largest, and gives computers a vocabulary more than 10 times as extensive as that of a typical US college graduate.
The coming third generation of life online is predicted to feature intuitive artificial intelligence applications that work swiftly across broadband Internet connections.
When applied to Internet searches, semantic technology delivers results oriented to what people seem to be seeking instead of simply matching words used to online content.
For example, a semantic online search for "melancholy songs with birds" would know to link sadness in lyrics with various species of birds.
Cognition's semantic map is already used in a LexisNexis Concordance "e-discovery" software to sift through documents amassed during evidence phases of trials.
"We help them find the needle in a haystack," Jarus said.
"It used to be boxes and boxes of paper and now 80 percent of it is digital. Lawyers can search for a smoking gun within that discovery material."
Cognition's Caselaw program uses the technology to mine more than a half-century of US federal court decisions for legal precedents, according to the company.
The semantic map is also employed in a widely-used medical database.
Cognition says it has also "semantically enabled" globally popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
A Web 3.0 target is to develop artificial intelligence "agents" that mine mountains of information on the Internet for material that suit the interests of the people they serve.
"It would be a software application constantly looking for things you might be interested in while accurately understanding the concepts of what you are looking for," Jarus said.
He described it as "artificial intelligence agents working for you on a push basis instead of a pull basis."
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