From: proy@conceptualspeech.com   
      
   I strongly believe that they are pretty much all off-target! The fact   
   on the matter is that words are a tool to communication, not the goal.   
   The true and undeniable goal of communication is to communicate   
   concepts. Words are only used as a transient wrapper for concepts.   
      
   The search engine that we can build using conceptual speech technology   
   (patent pending) does exactly that. First, the user enters what he's   
   looking for. Then, the conceptual speech search engine transforms the   
   words used to query into an abstract concept called a predicate. For   
   example, if a user enters "flowers but not roses", the predicate will   
   describe the concept conveyed and trash the words used. Finally, the   
   concept is searched for within the database of concept pages for   
   matches and results are returned (like pages containing "tulips",   
   "sunflowers", etc). These pages do not even include a single common   
   word with the ones used in the query, but still it respected the   
   essence of what was queried (providing more accurate matches - less   
   errors of type I and II).   
      
   Go and see for yourselves at http://www.conceptualspeech.com (no search   
   engine demo yet, but plenty of other related material).   
      
   [ comp.ai is moderated.  To submit, just post and be patient, or if ]   
   [ that fails mail your article to , and ]   
   [ ask your news administrator to fix the problems with your system. ]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)