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You're right, this is "semantics" of the statistical type.

There is no "understanding" involved. Just unsupervised number crunching.

Sorry, but there is no "semantics" of statistical type. You have semantics, or have not.

Fair enough, I see you take the linguist's approach :-)

You might try googling for "statistical semantics" though ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_semantics ).

More relevant to HN, there are entire businesses successfully using this (admittedly primitive) notion of "statistical semantics": Chomp.com, SketchEngine.co.uk, SumoBrain.com , PearsonKT.com etc.

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