Meet Google's Secret Weapon For Understanding Language: 'Parsey McParseface"

Google will release the code to it's SyntaxNet language understanding A.I. Language is a big ambiguous soup. Words have different meanings in different contexts, homographs exist, and humans regularly warp the established lexicon with slang. It's almost a miracle that we've built computers that can understand us at all. Systems for understanding human language have advanced significantly in the last few years, as researchers have improved approaches to artificial intelligence like deep learning. These methods set algorithms crawling through immense troves of data to draw connections between words and phrases.