Statistics could help decode ancient scripts - physics-math - 17 August 2009. A STATISTICAL method that picks out the most significant words in a book could help scholars decode ancient texts like the Voynich manuscript - or even messages from aliens. Humans find it easy to identify the words that capture the theme of a text - for example, that "whale" is a key word in Moby Dick - but this is a difficult task for computers.
Now Marcelo Montemurro, a systems biologist at the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have developed a method to identify word importance based on a branch of mathematics called information theory. "It seems that what we call semantics or meaning has a signature at the level of the statistics of words," says Montemurro. Simply counting the frequency of words in a text is not enough, as connective words such as "for" and "the" confuse the picture. Important words tend to clump ... CereProc Text to Speech - Homepage.
Spoken-language-recognition - An AI system to identify languages in audio. I, algorithm: A new dawn for artificial intelligence - tech - 31 January 2011. Artificial intelligence has finally become trustworthy enough to watch over everything from nuclear bombs to premature babies GIVEN the choice between a flesh-and-blood doctor and an artificial intelligence system for diagnosing diseases, Pedro Domingos is willing to stake his life on AI. "I'd trust the machine more than I'd trust the doctor," says Domingos, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Considering the bad rap AI usually receives - overhyped, underwhelming - such strong statements in its support are rare indeed. Back in the 1960s, AI systems started to show great promise for replicating key aspects of the human mind. Scientists began by using mathematical logic to both represent knowledge about the real world and to reason about it, but it soon turned out to be an AI straightjacket. While logic was capable of being productive in ways similar to the human mind, it was inherently unsuited ... [true knowledge]™ - home.
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