[ontolog-forum] Realist Ontology in Mainstream Media

[Barry Smith <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

There is a similarly interesting thread this week in the Huffington Post -- a history of SIRI and Tom Gruber's role therein:


The more traditional, error-prone approach to natural language processing interpreted meaning by identifying the parts of speech in a sentence. But Siri abandoned that method in favor of a breakthrough approach devised by Cheyer and his colleagues. Instead of modeling linguistic concepts, their system could model real-world objects. Told, "I want to see a thriller," Siri would immediately identify "thriller" as a film genre -- and summon up movies -- rather than analyze how the subject connected to an object and a verb.

from: SIRI RISING: The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/01/22/siri-do-engine-apple-iphone_n_2499165.html



Barry

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontology in Mainstream Media
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Wow! Obviously not too many at Davos (World Economic Forum) realize
that term in metaphysics has been
co-opted, for 20 years already, by information scientist to mean
something quite specific.

This is great, nonetheless!

regards. =ppy
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ali SH <asaegyn+out@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sort of pop interest, but thought people would appreciate it. The CEO of
> Yahoo, Marissa Mayer actually mentioned the word ontology at Davos, and it
> was reported ... in of all place ... the hollywood reporter.
>
> http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/news/davos-2013-yahoos-marissa-mayer-415324
>
> ===
> "...
> During the live stream outage, some people who were at the Mayer session
> tweeted that the Yahoo boss surprised the audience with the philosophical
> line: "You have to decide what the ontology of entities is." They said that
> the interviewer asked her to explain that, but nobody immediately shared her
> answer on Twitter. For those less interested in philosophy: Ontology is the
> philosophical study of the nature of being and existence.
> ..."
> ===
>
> Best,
> Ali

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