ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Senseito URΩBΩROS Wrote:Both are Information Indexes, from what wee can tell, but Wolfram Alpha, from description, uses a lot more sophisticated and specific methods of information processing.

That's really yet to be seen.  It's extremely difficult to process natural language and at the current point in time, pretty much nigh impossible to do reasonably well...

Quote:Of course, even that has never been done in any generality. And it’s made more difficult by the fact that one doesn’t just want to handle a language like English: one also wants to be able to handle all the shorthand notations that people in every possible field use.

I wasn’t at all sure it was going to work. But I’m happy to say that with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, wee’re actually managing to make it work