a drop of waterArchive for the ‘algorithms’ tag
Associative Word Geometry Applied to Internet Searches
Every word has an association with every other word. The associations can be strong or weak and negative or positive. i.e. Love has a strong positive association with romance and a strong negative association with hate. One could theoretically assign a point in an n-dimensional space (where each dimension is a type of association). By plotting each word in a search string in this space and finding planar intersections, a search engine could return a set of results of higher quality based on the users search. The advantage of this algorithm would be that it factors in the associative relationships of words by all users in order to interpret the intent of a single user.
