This is an exciting possibility. There are already some semantic seach
systems commercially available, like Cobrain (www.invention-machine.com).
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> 1. Application of TRIZ to Biomimetics and Biomimicry
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> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:48:03 +0100
> From: Norbert Hoeller <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Application of TRIZ to Biomimetics and Biomimicry
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> The article "Computers That Speak Your Language" by Wayne Roush
> (http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush0603.asp) describes various
> approaches at natural speech recognition. Page 4 ("A Deeper
> Understanding") describes a grammar-driven system, called the Xerox
> Linguistic Environment, which tries to preserve ambiguity. Developed by
> Ron Kaplan of PARC, the first use will be to analyse the Xerox copier
> repair database, looking for common solutions and thereby eliminating
> redundancy and speeding searches.
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> It is intriguing to speculate whether such a system could sift through
> digital archives of biological research, replicating by machine the work
> tht Altshuller and team did manually in analysing patents.
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