Re: this product seems to do most of what people talk about - mini review

Everyone

I have been reading the list a while now at a friend's
house. I also knew of this product from investment
inquiries made to a company I work with.

I saw the obvious similarities and so, wrote my email.

I am certainly not a spammer and have no affiliation
with the company. Thought you might be interested in
knowing, that is all.

Thank you (Giovanni Tummarello) for your review.
Appreciate your time, know you are busy.

W. Henderson

--- Giovanni Tummarello <g.tummarello@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I understand this is some kind of  targeted spam
> posting, but being 
> anyway curious i took the time to try the thing.
> 
> My mini review:
> 
> ExploreXY is a client side tool for finding
> correlations between 2 terms 
> (textual strings, say "foo" and "bar"). Its a client
> side tool, and this 
> makes sense since each correlation search is highly
> specialized and 
> therefore no server is going to to this for you (as
> its very unlikely 
> that it would reuse any previous result). While
> there are not many 
> details spelled out on how it works, i believe it
> does a bunch of 
> initial google queries (or similar) to find related
> pages, then uses NLP 
> to extract triples in the form of
> 
> A - verb1 - B
> B - verb2 - C
> ...
> Y - verb3 -Z
> 
> to link A and Z if these are the words you seek.
> But.. not only really,  
> a lot of other results are provided the logic of
> which is not clear 
> immediately.
> 
> The problem is obvious: the instability of the
> overall procedure (in 
> control theory terms). In simple terms:  NLP is
> amazingly error prone 
> per se. , so each triple extracted will have a...
> say 60% probability of 
> making no sense.
> If you multiply this by the length of the path you
> have a probability of 
> paths being meaningless very close to 1.
> But more often than not are pretty hilarious ;-)
> I tried to correlate "uranium" and "electricity". A
> typical result is 
> qualitatively as follows:
> 
> uranium - is - interest                    
>
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/U/key.html
> interests - of - engineers              
> http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/
> engineers - learned - ways            
> http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter02.html
> way - is - charge                           
> http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html
> charge quantity - of - electricity coulomb    
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
> 
> Other issues involve the time and resources taken
> while searching. 
> Expect a rather simple search to take 10-15 minutes
> and make your 
> machine fairly unusable due to probably bad
> programming practices (high 
> priority threads? too much work for the garbage
> collector?).
> I wont go into more details as my impression is that
> it is of no use 
> now. I was able to spot a few not entirely wrong
> correlations, but i 
> feel this is more from the initial web site search
> than from 
> understanding what these said (definitely nothing
> surprising here).
> 
> A remark that i feel like doing however is that the
> version that i tried 
> is said to be beta so who knows maybe some new trick
> is implemented 
> dramatically raising the S/N ratio by the time the
> 1.0 is reached? 
> There is undoubtly a great great amount of work in
> here.. and the idea i 
> think is interesting. One can only hope that they
> keep financing the 
> people who actually write and design the thing
> rather than whoever is 
> doing spam like marketing (hopefully not the same
> person) :-)
> Giovanni
> 
> 
> Walter Henderson wrote:
> 
> >Apologies for cross posting. I have been reading
> the
> >emails a colleague gets from this listserv.
> >
> >A company in Nevada has announced the release of a
> >product that seems to do most of what people have
> been
> >talking about on this list serv.
> >
> >It takes in unstructured data, recomposes it in new
> >answers and displays it in easy format.
> >
> >In other words, you don't need to be an expert to
> be
> >an expert.
> >
> >The purpose and goals of this BOF/list serv seems
> to
> >have been bypassed.
> >
> >www.explorexy.com
> >
> >W. Henderson
> >
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> 
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Received on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:26:34 UTC