Why intelligent machines must be versatile

Lexicographers have a hard time these days. With the rise of social media, they are confronted with the appearance of new terms almost in real time. As they observe search trends in online dictionaries, they must react quickly. Some of these new terms are easy to define – bitcoin, blockchain, phishing: articles that deliver contextual information are surfacing across the net like mushrooms on the damp soil of a forest, helping lexicographers to capture the various semantic flavors into a set of definitions. But what about words coined by a pundit in the frenzy of a tweet, words that leave you wondering whether they are just a misspelling, or a genuine word creation?