Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
2009-01-27
Computer Science
Computation and Language
Presented at Frontiers in Undergraduate Research, University of Connecticut, 2006
Scientific paper
Cilibrasi and Vitanyi have demonstrated that it is possible to extract the meaning of words from the world-wide web. To achieve this, they rely on the number of webpages that are found through a Google search containing a given word and they associate the page count to the probability that the word appears on a webpage. Thus, conditional probabilities allow them to correlate one word with another word's meaning. Furthermore, they have developed a similarity distance function that gauges how closely related a pair of words is. We present a specific counterexample to the triangle inequality for this similarity distance function.
Evangelista Alberto J.
Kjos-Hanssen Bjørn
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