Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Care to explain what it is? Don't forget that if translating (or any other type of NLP) consisted merely of getting a list of words and their meaning, the problem would have been long ago solved.
I think I already explained it. I'm copying what I wrote yesterday: I want to consider using existing databases, which are free to use, such as your Hspell project or Wikipedia - to feed initial data into the system. The main goal is to have (for each pair of languages) a list of translations of words, phrases and maybe even sentences. Then, the algorithm will just do "search and replace" - for every word, phrase or sentence it will replace it with its equivalent in the target languages. I think it's quite a simple algorithm to start with. And then it will be improved in the future. (Even Linux was not written in one day!). Look at my E-mail from yesterday for more details.
I have heared of some cases where interesting results were achieved using the neural network approach - teach the engine by letting it look at translations done by others. Having learned some neural network, the whole art is in choosing the correct learning network. A friend of mine once referred to the entire field as "Artificial Stupidity". You set up a computer program, you tell it, with precise details, what it needs to do. You set it out to do it. It does it. You cry out in wonder "look, it learns all by itself!"
I worked with artificial neural networks in the past and I think the approach of "Artificial Stupidity" is wrong. Neural networks do work in some cases. The idea (in a nutshell) is that they can generalize, and you don't teach them how to generalize. You just feed them with data, "train" them and they generalize by themselves. On the other hand, neural networks are not really intelligent. You can't teach them to play chess, for example. They are not suitable for everything. If you're interested in what I did with neural networks - I used them to compose music. If you want to see more details, look at "Speedy Composer": http://www.speedy.co.il/composer/ Best Regards, Uri Even-Chen Speedy Net Raanana, Israel. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +972-9-7715013 Website: www.uri.co.il -------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
