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The Topology of Semantic Space
People in the information sciences are fond of high-dimensional vector spaces as models of document content. These are in fact only approximations of reality, however; and in the specific case of...
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Perfect What?
We have been musing about the true topology of semantic spaces and how this affects our concept of dimensionality. This segués logically into a hot area of contention. In our linear approximation of...
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Going Deep
When people read text, they may not understand everything in it. For example, a layman might look at an article from a medical journal and see only that it is about some kind of drug. Someone more...
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Hijacked
Has this ever happened to you? You are Googling for information on the Web, but inadvertently your query happens to share keywords with the latest cultural phenom: the next tweener heart throb, a...
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One Size Fits All?
Because my wife is petite in size, she has difficulty finding clothes and shoes that fit and, being of a certain age, no longer has the option of shopping in the teens section. One understands exactly...
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Basics
Linguists have long debated whether human language ability is innate or is simply learned by highly plastic neurocircuitry of a general sort. Recent studies with fMRI scans indicate, however, that...
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Language, Thought, and Reality
Back in the 60′s and 70′s of the last century, the Whorfian hypothesis was a hot subject on college campuses. This was the idea that one’s native language, its syntax and semantics, strongly shaped...
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Language, Thought, and Action
The February issue of Scientific American had an article on the latest thinking about the Whorfian Hypothesis, which states that language strongly influences how humans think. This was a hot idea...
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Cutting Edge Semantics?
Aristotle lived about 2,400 years ago, well before the advent of the Worldwide Web. Yet his ideas drive the still emerging Semantic Web. In fact, we could probably do a better job as modern...
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TextWise Launches One-Click Findability on the Salesforce App Exchange
The TextWise One-Click Findability application is now available on the Salesforce App Exchange. If you manage a contact center and/or customer self-service using Salesforce then try this app. Our...
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