2003-05-17

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Making Computers Understand (TechNews.com)

Eli Abir, who never used a computer until 1993, seems an improbable character to illustrate how innovation is alive and well in techno-land. Yet my encounter with him helped convince me of just that. Abir, 46, claims to have unlocked the mystery of "context" in human language with a series of algorithms that enable computers to decipher the meaning of sentences -- a puzzle that has stumped scientists for decades.