On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > The integer is the ordinal of the word.  Note that the linkage "is-a" was
> > selected over "a test" -- that's because "a test" has an MI of 2.0935.
> This
> > is not terribly surprising;
>
> I wonder if this example would work better if you used asymmetric
> information rather than symmetric mutual information, as I suggested
> before, though...
>
> The problem with symmetric MI is: "a" is strongly attracted to "test",
> but "test" is not strongly attracted to "a"
>
> Whereas both "is" and "a" are strongly attracted to each other
>
> So I sorta suspect that if you used asymmetric information here, and
> then found the msdag rather than the mstree, you would get this (and
> other similar) examples right even without a huge corpus...
>

Pronto. This is "easy".  At least, if I use the definition I(X,Y) / H(X).
Any other favorite or suggested forms?  I mean, we can do crazy things like
squaring these quantities, too.  I sort of want to avoid playing too many
strange games, because it does take more time, but it would be a worthwhile
exercise to at least write down all plausible forms.

--linas

>
>
> "I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the
> boundary, I am the peak." -- Alexander Scriabin
>

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