Your tl;dr by an ai: a deep reinforced model for abstractive summarization

Re:Your tl;dr by an ai: a deep reinforced model for abstract... by lngnmn on Sunday May 14, 2017 @08:45AM (#14335388)

According to linguists, there is an inevitable gap between a syntax and semantics, due to the fundamental principle of arbitrariness of phonemes used. To put it simple, any sequence of sounds could be associated with any meaning (given a distinct semantics). Morphemes however, while in some cases could be used as a direct pointers to the meaning, nevertheless require one or even several contexts to be interpreted correctly.

TL;DR - there is no way to get proper semantics without mastering appropriate contexts (domain knowledge) from mere syntax in principle. One would get certain word patterns, but not the corresponding deep structure (the intended meaning). Summarization would be arbitrary.

Try to summarize the sermon on the mount.

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Re:Your tl;dr by an ai: a deep reinforced model for abstract... by skoocda on Sunday May 14, 2017 @12:28PM (#14336239)

Some would further argue that learning underlying meaning (which can only derived from context, AKA the pragmatic), is completely impossible without agency. Until these AI systems can grok information relative to some sort of spiritual/ philosophical/ metaphysical "self", they won't be able to make quality judgements.

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