BI 031 Francisco de Sousa Webber: Natural Language Understanding

Brain Inspired

Apr 12 2019 | 01:44:47

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Show Notes

Businessportrait Francisco Webber

Cortical.io
The white paper we discuss: Semantic Folding Theory And its Application in Semantic Fingerprinting.
A nice talk Francisco gave: Semantic fingerprinting: Democratising natural language processing
Francisco was influenced by Jeff Hawkins’ work and book On Intelligence.
See episode 017 to learn more about Jeff Hawkins’ approach to modeling cortex.
Douglas Hofstadter’s Analogy as the Core of Cognition.

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