[WikiEN-l] Why the semantic web needs human review

[Stephen Bain]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:33 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunate results from trying to extract meaning from Wikipedia text
> by machine:
>
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/02/netbase-thinks-you-can-get-rid-of-jews-with-alcohol-and-salt/

And they've apologised but not fixed their results.

It gets worse:

http://healthbase.netbase.com/#Jew&Causes
http://healthbase.netbase.com/#Jew&Complications
http://healthbase.netbase.com/#Jew&Pros

Next time I see any of my Jewish friends I'm going to ask them to
"bring horse" as HealthBase promises they will do.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com