This little blurb was from an article I read online while searching for some information myself, about hmmmmm... natural language processing. which, as it turns out is really about human information behavior, or where it leads in the real world – search engines and the Internet:
“Probabilistic or statistical systems use probability and statistics to predict what might be not only exact, but close matches to a query. In these systems, you get what you ask for, but you might also get what you should have asked for. Unfortunately, you also retrieve other documents that contain your query terms, but not the information you wanted.”
NLP meets the jabberwocky, Susan Feldman, 5/1999, Online. accessed through www.highbeam.com on 1/27/2005.
We had thought all along that all roads led to Rome, when in actuality, they all lead to Mick Jagger.
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