ICE-4005 - Meeting 3

Meeting

Attendance: Alan, Bill

Agenda:

Main discussion points:

Alan experienced difficulties during the building of the project locally which led to the following discussion on LanguageTool forum
Bill said that this was exactly the kind of things that was expected to happen, and that a problem leading to a code update on the project is some sort of a progress.

Java:
Hunspell dictionaries:
- the .aff file format
HAL: Hyperspace Analog Language, how words proximity can be considered as an analog to their semantic proximity (articles: Nasharuddin and her example here)
- weight (in the case, the proximity between two words), and how one may use similar weights patterns in parallel text to find words translations.
- window size, used to define the wieghts
- Tuples as vectors: I understood that vectors can have many more dimentions that defined in the Euclidian space, and that the maths still holds, especially for the following:
- cosines similarity, Euclidian norm, vector normalisation
- See my conversation with mistral as I digested the new concept
Vector space model: same concepts as HAL, but used more to categorize document instead of analizing the relationship between words