Automatic distillation of structure

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Automatic Distillation of Structure (ADIOS) is an algorithm that can analyse source material such as text and come up with meaningful information about the generative structures that gave rise to the source. One application of the algorithm is grammar induction: ADIOS can read a source text and infer grammatical rules based on structures and patterns found in the text. Using these, the system can then generate new well-structured sentences.

ADIOS was developed by Zach Solan, David Horn, and Eytan Ruppin from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Shimon Edelman from Cornell University, New York, USA.

[edit] References

• "Computers learn a new language", New Scientist, August 6, 2005. 
• "Computer program learns language rules and composes sentences, all without outside help", Gizmag, September 2, 2005. 
• ADIOS Project Homepage