According to Cognition Technologies, it's very rare for people to use the same sentence structure or the same words. Knowing that, the real semantic search technology should primarily focus on ...

Upon encountering an unfamiliar word, many people look it up in a dictionary. The assumption is that words possess well-defined meanings and dictionaries outline their semantic boundaries. However, a ...

It’s a bizarre scourge afflicting editors and writers, casual readers, and pretty much anyone pondering a word for any length of time. Consider the word flower. F-l-o-w-e-r. Flowers. The flower in the ...

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in the title or ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Brain power: Can a duck have four legs? This was the question addressed by Prof Matthew Lambon Ralph in his BA Darwin Award lecture at the Festival of Science in Norwich yesterday. Prof Lambon Ralph ...