an online record of online meanderings
“Can computers learn to read? We think so. Read the Web is a research project that attempts to create a computer system that learns over time to read the web. Since January 2010, our computer system called NELL (Never-Ending Language Learner) has been running continuously, attempting to perform two tasks each day:
First, it attempts to ‘read,’ or extract facts from text found in hundreds of millions of web pages (e.g., playsInstrument(George_Harrison, guitar)). Second, it attempts to improve its reading competence, so that tomorrow it can extract more facts from the web, more accurately.”
In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt (plural: umwelten; the German word Umwelt means “environment” or “surrounding world”) is the “biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal.”
“The creation of collaborative translation platforms. “
