• Re: semantics

    From ram@ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) to sci.lang on Thu Sep 4 22:48:34 2025
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    On Dec 23, 1997, Mikael Thompson wrote:
    Unless I am mistaken, Hubey's model is to represent the words in a
    list as a combination of a semantic-space vector and a

    The representation of words by semantic vectors is an important
    step in how today's AI chatbots process their input and output.

    Above, we see it already has been discussed here in 1997!


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  • From Ross Clark@benlizro@ihug.co.nz to sci.lang on Sun Sep 7 11:22:41 2025
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    On 5/09/2025 10:48 a.m., Stefan Ram wrote:
    On Dec 23, 1997, Mikael Thompson wrote:
    Unless I am mistaken, Hubey's model is to represent the words in a
    list as a combination of a semantic-space vector and a

    The representation of words by semantic vectors is an important
    step in how today's AI chatbots process their input and output.

    Above, we see it already has been discussed here in 1997!



    I remember Hubey as a cantankerous comp sci person who fancied
    linguistics would be better with lots more mathematical formalism.
    (Mikael Thompson was one of his many adversaries.) Maybe he did have
    some influence on the developing AI field.
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