http://kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/ The official blog of Dave Kellogg Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/#comment-2942 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:01:57 +0000 http://test.kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/#comment-2942 [...] NetBase Tragicomedy: The Perils of "Magic" and Language Processing … [...]

]]> http://kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/#comment-2941 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:53:01 +0000 http://test.kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/#comment-2941 Unfortunately, this case stands as an indictment of NLP and "magic" in large part because of fixable problems that were neglected long after they were identified. I hope that the company puts some needed fixes into place soon and represents the state of Natural Language technology better:http://nlpconfidential.blogspot.com/2009/09/medicine-for-healthbase.html

]]> http://kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/#comment-2940 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:10:26 +0000 http://test.kellblog.com/2009/09/03/netbase-tragicomedy-the-perils-of-magic-and-language-processing/#comment-2940 The poison comes from the semantic that has flooded the Web with the version 3.0 just as the hack tips have flooded in the Web with the number 2.0. Everyone makes semantic as Monsieur Jourdain in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme makes prose. Some even claim to define the syntax from semantic. It is well known: semantic is the mother of the syntax, itself is the lexical parent node. All modern philosophers know that and they are becoming more numerous. Magic invaded the planet. The alchemists are back, new religions are multiplying, bankers are increasingly conjuring, elections produce results more surprising. However the weather is still unclear, vaccines are still too difficult to develop, programs are squatted by more and more cockroaches, web designers are recruited from colleges. I just visited a Web service that I did not know before. I subscribe to in specifying data transmitted in http (without S, because the site does not support S – S for syntax Security). However semantic is safe because they speak learnedly about security. A few minutes later I try to open my personal space and my browser gets stuck, my keyboard was unresponsive. I ask my inspector to investigate, he does not know any of the semantic point, but he found that the code inside was very badly written. I am often in trouble because my browser was set for myself to identify spelling errors. Just for fun I wrote the character "below" < and behind some other characters, nothing too serious because I am not a pirate. This site is very serious, however, many French players in the web are present, they speak very carefully the incoming web. (http://techtoc.tv/). The species Homo deserves perhaps not really attribute SAPIENS, probably ranking ontological abusive or premature. It is not enough to store everything we have at hand on a magnetic disk in either 2.0 or 3.0 format to organize things for themselves. The magic is necessary because the human brain is lazy. The human brain is brimming with ideas but hate the logic and syntax. I think I understand why Alan Turing committed suicide. But some people continue to say that holy Logic was below the cradle of the Big Bang, later a witch gave an apple to a brave man who thought becoming a scientist. The magic goose must be fought every day. Semantic is not OWL or RDF. The OWL on its tree is laughing at the clever fox.

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