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Daniel_Burfoot comments on Open thread, Sept. 29 - Oct.5, 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 29 September 2014 09:47:33PM 2 points [-]

To give an example of what I mean here, imagine you are a computer learning agent hooked up to the Google NGram API. You come across an unknown word "Montana". You guess from syntactic context that "Montana" is a geographic region. Now you search for the trigrams "governor of Montana" and "mayor of Montana". The latter gets zero hits, while the former gets many, so you conclude "Montana" is a state.