According to Cognition Technologies, it's very rare for people to use the same sentence structure or the same words. Knowing that, the real semantic search technology should primarily focus on ...

Upon encountering an unfamiliar word, many people look it up in a dictionary. The assumption is that words possess well-defined meanings and dictionaries outline their semantic boundaries. However, a ...

It is now possible to identify the meaning of words with multiple meanings, without using their semantic context. Two physicists have now devised a method to automatically elucidate the meaning of ...

It’s a bizarre scourge afflicting editors and writers, casual readers, and pretty much anyone pondering a word for any length of time. Consider the word flower. F-l-o-w-e-r. Flowers. The flower in the ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

Google does a great deal of research into natural language processing and synthesis, but not every project has to be a new Assistant feature or voice improvement. The company has a little fun now and ...