Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

Taxonomy of concepts project

Just opensourced a ‘taxonomy of concepts‘ project. The aim of this project is to create a library in Python based on a taxonomy of commonly used concepts, so that it can be used in projects related to artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language understanding and processing. The library that is part of the module is intended to allow an AI to answer a broad range of questions such as:

  • What is the opposite of generosity?
  • What is the contrary of prodigality?
  • Can you complete the following sentence, where the last word is missing: cowardice and cautiousness are in the same type of relationship as stinginess and …
  • Can you complete the following sentence, where the last word is missing: prodigality and avarice are in the same type of relationship as inclemency and …

The two-language matching problem

Here is a problem for a human intelligence (or an AGI): we have a dictionary (with words, lemmas and grammatical types) in a language A and a second dictionary in a language B. If we have an extensive corpus of each of the two languages, is it possible to create a translation dictionary from A to B, and how? To take an example: if the two languages were French and English, we would have to associate ‘cheval’ with ‘horse’, etc. in the final translation dictionary, and so on for all the words of language A.

Highly related seems to be this paper: Deciphering Undersegmented Ancient Scripts Using Phonetic Prior.