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The robot reader’s digest
WORK in the Â鶹´«Ã½ office was recently hindered by news from Google Labs. “Progress on the path from shallow bag-of-words information retrieval algorithms to machines capable of reading and understanding documents has been slow,” .
This is in part because training a natural-language processing system requires an extensive database of well-annotated writing. Now the researchers have chanced upon such a corpus… in the form of the Daily Mail, which prefaces each online story…
