On Mar 11, 2006, at 6:29 PM, Bill Andersen wrote: (01)
> Sergei's suggestion is an excellent one.
>
> Perhaps one very useful outcome of the UO summit would be begin an
> effort to find funding for such tests. Given that application
> development costs are as high as they are, we almost never get the
> kind of comparative studies we're talking about – no business has
> the resources to do them and purely empirical work such as this is
> IMHO somewhat unpopular in the academic world.
>
> I'm thinking something like the HALO project, except extended in
> the way Sergei suggests (maybe OMG or some related body would be
> interested in backing the "non-ontology" team)... (02)
It would be a pleasure to work on specifying such an experiment.
Most, if not all, of the NLP-related "bake-off" tasks so far have
been designed in such a way that the shallow, semantics-free and
knowledge-lite approaches have a built in advantage.
Different formulations and metrics are possible. Maybe we can have a
"birds-of-a-feather" meeting at the meeting next week to toss around
ideas... (03)
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