Re: Apropos of everything

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Posted by pma
2005-12-11 22:45:05

There exists a product called Autonomy which should be quite good at digging the meaning out of text - no matter what language! It should even be able to make an abstract of a text automatically. I once saw a presentation of its capabilities, and I was rather impressed.

I still exists (http://www.autonomy.com), but it doesn’t seem to have any products for the desktop. It’s all big server-based solutions.

This is from their homepage:

Autonomy is founded on a unique combination of technologies borne out of research carried out at Cambridge University. Autonomy’s strength lies in advanced pattern-matching techniques (non-linear adaptive digital signal processing), rooted in the theories of Bayesian Inference and Claude Shannon’s Principles of Information, that enable identification of the patterns that naturally occur in text, based on the usage and frequency of words or terms that correspond to specific concepts.

Based on the preponderance of one pattern over another in a piece of unstructured information, Autonomy enables computers to understand that there is a particular probability that a document in question is about a specific subject. In this way, Autonomy is able to extract a document’s digital essence, encode the unique “signature” of the key concepts, then enable a host of operations to be performed on that text, automatically.

Peter.

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