Mariana SofferWed, Feb 24, 2010 Great comment gamma, excelent thinking. Well one of the great problems we have with analyzing text meaning is that we need context, because context is everything, even dough you might have 2 very similar texts they probably do not mean the same if one was written by an indian guy in the eighteenhundreds a d the other by a teenager nowadays.
Besides I think there is a lot of protocol and implicit rules on these texts that might say even more than what is explicitly written. They also vary a lot depending on the culture where it emerged from and the profile of the person who wrote it.
But if you do NLP in a limited context like the current american scientific community, you can do a lot with these techniques, cause they have a very similar context.
Regarding the question it is a very difficult think to answer, indeed you could say that human language is an artifice. Regarding the patterns I do belive that they exist everywhere like in how the different tongues merge and diverge, but they are influences also by an incredible large number of different factors such as earthquakes, economy and wars.
Great comment gamma, excelent thinking. Well one of the great problems we have with analyzing text meaning is that we need context, because context is everything, even dough you might have 2 very similar texts they probably do not mean the same if one was written by an indian guy in the eighteenhundreds a d the other by a teenager nowadays.
Besides I think there is a lot of protocol and implicit rules on these texts that might say even more than what is explicitly written. They also vary a lot depending on the culture where it emerged from and the profile of the person who wrote it.
But if you do NLP in a limited context like the current american scientific community, you can do a lot with these techniques, cause they have a very similar context.
Regarding the question it is a very difficult think to answer, indeed you could say that human language is an artifice. Regarding the patterns I do belive that they exist everywhere like in how the different tongues merge and diverge, but they are influences also by an incredible large number of different factors such as earthquakes, economy and wars.