[Xapian-discuss] Fwd: Re: Another ue for Recoll/Xapian? - AI/Eliza

[Philip Rhoades]

People,

I sent this note to JF at Recoll and he suggested asking here (his 
response below) - any suggestions?

Thanks,

Phil.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Another ue for Recoll? - AI/Eliza
Date: 2012-12-23 19:22
 From: jf at dockes.org
To: <phil at pricom.com.au>

Philip Rhoades writes:
  > Jean,
  >
  > I have been using Recoll happily for some time now but I also have a
  > need for an AI/Eliza-like facility and I thought Recoll's fast text
  > searching may allow for fast semantic parsing for such a thing - has
  > anyone considered this sort of thing before?
  >
  > Regards,
  >
  > Phil.
  >
  > --
  > Philip Rhoades


Hi,

I know nothing about this kind of things. I know that the people from
Xapian have been working with different statistical models with 
students
from the Google summer of code this last summer. Semantic models etc. 
are
probably more of their domain of knowledge than of mine. Any code 
dealing
with this (apart from text extraction) will be very close to the Xapian
layer in any case.

I think that there has been work about improving search engines with
semantic models ("concepts") as long as search has existed (much before
internet existed). As far as I know, nothing really convincing has ever
emerged. Maybe things are more mature now, but it seems that the 
general
tendancy is more towards using sophisticated statistics than explicit
semantic models, of which humans are apparently still the exclusive
masters.

So no real idea, but if you have something more precise in mind, I'm 
all
ready to assist with what Recoll and Xapian knowledge I may have !

Cheers,

jf

-- 
Philip Rhoades

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