From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 5/09/2025 10:48 a.m., Stefan Ram wrote:   
   > On Dec 23, 1997, Mikael Thompson wrote:   
   >> Unless I am mistaken, Hubey's model is to represent the words in a   
   >> list as a combination of a semantic-space vector and a   
   >   
   >    The representation of words by semantic vectors is an important   
   >    step in how today's AI chatbots process their input and output.   
   >   
   >    Above, we see it already has been discussed here in 1997!   
   >   
   >   
      
   I remember Hubey as a cantankerous comp sci person who fancied   
   linguistics would be better with lots more mathematical formalism.   
   (Mikael Thompson was one of his many adversaries.) Maybe he did have   
   some influence on the developing AI field.   
      
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