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Re: Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

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Post by bemmu »

DanielStraight wrote: post #2

Interesting. It can also be used as a Markov chain text generator. Type one word, then just accept every suggestion. "In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them."

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Re: Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

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Post by danielnicollet »

There are so many things to say about this. Thanks to Google for creating this tool which I must say still seems a bit random in its objectives though.

I think the main issue here is that logic behind scribe is based on statistical frequency of co-occurrence of strings rather than any semantic logic. Granted, automating the semantics here could be tough and very expensive with the amounts of data available to Google's. However, there are some ways to do that if the index can be structured more efficiently and by using low-level semantic logic like taxonomies - I wrote a white paper about this if anyone is interested: http://www.exorbyte.com/index.php/White-Papers/ajax-incremen...

Re: Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

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Post by hnote »

DanielStraight wrote: post #2

Interesting. It can also be used as a Markov chain text generator. Type one word, then just accept every suggestion. "In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them."

Typing in "Larry and Sergey" produces

Larry and Sergey Dump Shares of the Company and their respective mascots, events and info in the top right corner of the world's largest international multimedia news agency

but after a few more phrases the story gets into a loop.

Re: Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

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apike wrote: post #10
DanielStraight wrote: post #2

Interesting. It can also be used as a Markov chain text generator. Type one word, then just accept every suggestion. "In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them."

Indeed. The first sentence it generated for me was not a Markovian nonsense phrase, but rather a phrase that appears on a very large number of web pages: "The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate." This gives some insight into their seed data.

Their seed data is probably the n-gram dataset that they released (or maybe a more recent one):

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-ar...

Microsoft also has an n-gram dataset that you can access through a web service:

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/info/

Re: Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

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Post by someone_here »

DanielStraight wrote: post #2

Interesting. It can also be used as a Markov chain text generator. Type one word, then just accept every suggestion. "In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them."

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Re: Google Scribe - Get autocomplete suggestions as you type

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Post by kylec »

DanielStraight wrote: post #2

Interesting. It can also be used as a Markov chain text generator. Type one word, then just accept every suggestion. "In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them."

You can even get it to repeat itself after a while:

    I have been able to find anything in these search results from RT on your
    Google searches by subscribing to the feed via email to state their case
    and their ownership of their owners and are strictly for viewing and printing
    of these books are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients
    is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for
    their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma
    keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their
    particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective
    owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing
    but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are
    the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to
    their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own
    right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in
    which they are attached to their respective owners...
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