Word Related Algorithms

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Hi All,

I'm currently working on an interesting project dealing with emotion related content and and just working out the database structures and how to handle some elements of language.

I'm not even sure of any specific terms related to these processes but I'm wanting to read up on various methodologies for analysing sentences and trying to glean some meaning from them that can be then reacted to by the system.

Any methodologies of giving individual words significant meaning as well.

I know this is an epic topic and not an exact science but any links to good articles or algorithms (a lá Levenshtine Distance type stuff) that would be really helpful.

Regards,

Posted 29-Oct-12 5:08am

Jammer

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Guirec · Answer 1 · 2012-10-29T05:15:00

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You could try some google search with
Lexicology[^] and Semantic[^]
and then from a computer science point of view you might want to look at :
Inference engines[^]

Can have a look at lemmas and morphosyntax as well...

I used to be part of a project almost 20 years ago which aim to make sense of words in the same way you are doing. Hopefully we were financed to do this because we spent almost 8 years of man work to go... nowhere!
The topic is interesting but astronomically complex at the same time....

Gooooood Luck!

[EDIT]

I found this excellent presentation:
http://kodu.ut.ee/~jyrviste/kfsdk/suvekool-2012/McCarthy_2.pdf[^]
It will give you a fair idea of the complexity and it includes a whole bunch of references....

Let us know about evolution of your project :-)

Posted 29-Oct-12 5:15am

Guirec

Updated 29-Oct-12 16:56pm

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Jammer 29-Oct-12 11:45am

Just out of interest were you producing this for a specific language (English, French ...)?

My current implementation just knows about things like Verbs, Nouns adjectives etc ... long way to go yet!

Guirec 29-Oct-12 11:51am

It was originally intended to deal with any alphabet based written language.

Jammer 29-Oct-12 12:02pm

Sheesh, that sounds horrifically complex!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Oct-12 18:07pm

Do you think you got into a simple project? No time to complain. :-)
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Oct-12 18:07pm

My 5.
--SA

Jammer 30-Oct-12 5:20am

Guirec, thank you so much! Great find!

I've started looking at using either a recompiled version of OpenNLP from Apache or Antelope. The problem seems with Antelope to be a total lack of any meaningful ducumentation so we'll have to see ...