Powerset seems like an interesting concept, but reminds me a lot of the NLP projects I saw while I was in college, in that they produce output that almost makes sense, except not really. China "took: actions, actions, and steps", shark "eats: Samuel L. Jackson" (!!!), or my favorite, "computer clogs: system and government".
It seems to do better on phrases that represent very specific concepts like 'Emacs' or 'calendar'. In general though, it combines very specific and very broad concepts (presumably because it can't tell the difference), for instance "Electricity reaches: village and Drewsey".
Still, kinda neat, especially if they can pull in information from other sources and cross it with the Wikipedia data. e2, perhaps?
(Edit: Oh, and apparently they got bought by Microsoft today)
posted 2008/07/01 16:45 [category: bitbashing / net]
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