[topicmapmail] Generation of Topic Maps and Machine Learning

[Murray Altheim]

Murray Altheim wrote:
[...]
> The thing I got most out of all of this was that the CMU engine
> knows *absolutely nothing* about the subjects being represented
> within the documents. There is *absolutely no* concept of subject
> or subject identity, and the researchers at CMU would laugh at
> the idea. As was reinforced by a conversation with Geoffrey
> Nunbert, a computational linguist at Stanford, NLP is likely [...]
   ^^^^^^^

Just a minor correction, a mispelling. The name is Geoffrey
Nunberg, who has a regular radio feature on NPR's Fresh Air
and a new book out on the peculiarities of human language
called "Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in
Controversial Times." His home page is at:

  http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/

Murray

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Murray Altheim                    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, Milton Keynes, Bucks, MK7 6AA, UK               .

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