I wrote a book about a new philosophy of empirical science based on large scale lossless data compression. I use the word "comperical" to express the idea of using the compression principle to guide an empirical inquiry. Though I developed the philosophy while thinking about computer vision (in particular the chronic, disastrous problems of evaluation in that field), I realized that it could also be applied to text. The resulting research program, which I call comperical linguistics, is something of a hybrid of linguistics and natural language processing, but (I believe) on much firmer methodological ground than either. I am now carrying out research in this area, AMA.
How do you expect this work to influence the fields of computer vision, NLP, etc. -- would it inspire new techniques?
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