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The Times of India (Delhi edition)
The internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words — and gives the machines a vocabulary far larger than that of a typical US college graduate.
Cognition Technologies began licensing the map on Tuesday to software creators interested in having programs “understand” words based on tenses and sentence context — in much the same way as the human brain does.
“We have taught the computer virtually all the meanings of words and phrases in the English language,” Cognition chief executive Scott Jarus said.
“This is clearly a building block for Web 3.0, or what is known as the Semantic Web. It has taken 30 years; it is a labour of love,” Jarus said.
The semantic map is reportedly the world’s largest, and gives computers a vocabulary more than 10 times as extensive as that of a typical US college graduate.
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