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March 29, 2016

WordsEye [Subject Identity Properties]

Filed under: Graphics,Natural Language Processing,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 8:50 am

WordsEye

A site that enables you to “type a picture.” What? To illustrate:

A [mod] ox is a couple of feet in front of the [hay] wall. It is cloudy. The ground is shiny grass. The huge hamburger is on the ox. An enormous gold chicken is behind the wall…

Results in:

word-eye

The site is in a close beta test but you can apply for an account.

I mention “subject identity properties” in the title because the words we use to identify subjects, are properties of subjects, just like any other properties we attribute to them.

Unfortunately, words are viewed by different people as identifying different subjects and the different words as identifying the same subjects.

The WordsEye technology can illustrates the fragility of using a single word to identify a subject of conversation.

Or that multiple identifications have the same subject, with side by side images that converge on a common image.

Imagine that in conjunction with 3-D molecular images for example.

I first saw this in a tweet by Alyona Medelyan.

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