operator: find-topic
description:
find-topic[op] |x>
find most similar frequency list, defined with respect to op, of |x>
the back-end to this operator uses normed-frequency-class
examples:
-- load some knowledge:
-- in this case US census frequency list of male, female and last names:
-- NB: unfortunately this is super memory hungry!
web-load http://semantic-db.org/sw-examples/names.sw
-- define our operator:
guess-name-type |*> #=> find-topic[names] to-lower |_self>
-- ask about 'Emma'
guess-name-type |Emma>
90.323|female name> + 9.677|last name>
-- ask about 'Gina'
guess-name-type |Gina>
100|female name>
-- ask about 'Mark'
guess-name-type |Mark>
54.664|male name> + 28.633|last name> + 16.703|female name>
-- ask about 'Fred'
guess-name-type |Fred>
63.294|male name> + 28.418|last name> + 8.288|female name>
-- ask about 'Branson'
guess-name-type |Branson>
100|last name>
-- define our guess-gender operator:
name-type |male name> => |male>
name-type |female name> => |female>
guess-gender |*> #=> clean select[1,1] name-type find-topic[names] to-lower |_self>
guess-gender |Lisa>
|female>
guess-gender |Eric>
|male>
guess-gender |Jane>
|female>
guess-gender |Stephen>
|male>
see also:
similar-input, normed-frequency-class
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