Hi Ben & Linas, I assume you're familiar with sense2vec. At the one paragraph level of detail, this suggestion seems pretty similar to me, any key differences?
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Ben Goertzel <b...@goertzel.org> wrote: > Linas, > > I thought a bit about how to use a modified version of the word2vec > idea in our language learning pipeline... > > I'm thinking about the Skip-gram model of word2vec, as summarized > informally e.g. here > > http://mccormickml.com/2016/04/19/word2vec-tutorial-the-skip-gram-model/ > > Following up the suggestion you made in Addis in our chat with > Masresha, I'm thinking to replace the "adjacent word-pairs" used in > word2vec with "word-pairs that are adjacent in the parse tree" (where > e.g. the parse tree may be the max-weight spanning tree in our > language learning algorithm).... > > This would still produce a vector just like word2vec does, via the > hidden layer of the NN ... but the vector would likely be more > meaningful than a typical word2vec vector... > > What would the purpose of this be, in the context of our language > learning algorithm? The purpose would be that clustering should work > better on the word2vec vectors than on the raw-er data regarding "word > co-occurrence in parse trees." At least, that seems plausible, since > clustering on word2vec vectors generally works better than on > co-occurrence vectors > > This would be something that Masresha or someone else in Addis could > work on, I think... > > We can discuss at the office this week... > > ben > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “Our first mothers and fathers … were endowed with intelligence; they > saw and instantly they could see far … they succeeded in knowing all > that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all > around them, and they contemplated in turn the arch of heaven and the > round face of the earth. … Great was their wisdom …. They were able to > know all.... > > But the Creator and the Maker did not hear this with pleasure. … ‘Are > they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be > gods? … What if they do not reproduce and multiply?’ > > Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes, which clouded > their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered > and they could see only what was close, only that was clear to them.” > > — Popol Vuh (holy book of the ancient Mayas) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/opencog/CACYTDBc3RLChVKehr4DMxbXVbpyMJkyszsKVju-7cy7GpZzBrQ%40mail. > gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cassio Pennachin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CADwLDSRD9cZ8HCg_%2Be4dw5fmzBB4ZSR_kDCbPeMdvhXWE3BrfA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.