[Search-l] [Nlp] Related concepts, function words, content words

[Jimmy Wales]

Ben Goertzel wrote:
> Anyway I don't think that the quest for real machine understanding of 
> text is doomed
> at all, but I do think that proceeding toward that goal via a pure NLP, 
> or pure Web
> search, approach, is ultimately not gonna work.
> 
> However, one can still do some cool stuff, and improve substantially on 
> the state
> of the art ;-)

I'm all for it!  Just... skeptical at this point. :)

--Jimbo