Sean Carney

Tag: Language

  • Norbert Wiener on Using Statistics to Emulate Language

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    Sean Carney
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    One may get a remarkable semblance of a language like English by taking a sequence of words, or pairs of words, or triads of words, according to the statistical frequency with which they occur in the language, and the gibberish thus obtained will have a remarkably persuasive similarity to good English. This meaningless simulacrum of…