Tag:Natural Language

Purple rain: did Homer think the wine-dark sea was burgundy?
Purple rain: did Homer think the wine-dark sea was burgundy?

Now for something off the track of my usual posts to the Cersys blog: Four takes on the topic of color perception through the prisms of cognitive science, perception, language, literature, and history. Meet our panelists: What color are the sash and bonnet in this painting? Wrong – io9.com Ancient Greek Color Vision | Serendip’s Exchange –…

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Catching and Re-throwing the Misles | Funny
Catching and Re-throwing the Misles | Funny

Only the most perfect people don’t have an anecdote about mispronouncing a word which they’ve only read silently until then.  Personally, I’ve learned lots about perennial gardens over the years, but I still hesitate to name many plants aloud. Clematis – should the emphasis be like tomato or Clamato? So, read the first article, and…

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The Turing Test – are you better than a computer

Here’s an interesting book review of “The Most Human Human”  – leading off with the concept of the Turing Test. This Test is: can a computer convincingly simulate a human participation in a conversation? In particular I am curious about its exploration of ‘the way the compression of data can be used as a measure of…

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news: LexisNexis Introduces a Semantic Search ‘Brain’ – semanticweb.com

The number of search solutions claiming to incorporate ‘concept identification’ is increasing.  Are you having a hard time sorting through all the options to determine which solution is right for your law firm? Contact me to set up a free hour of consulting. “The new semantic search technology takes this science to the next level…

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