Shannon language tests

Dec 04, 2005 18:14

A project idea I've written down on my notebooks: Shannon language tests, to automatically generate tests to measure language ability. The prediction task is similar to the way Shannon measured the entropy of English.

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mathemajician December 4 2005, 17:59:08 UTC
Sounds like a "Cloze Test" or a "C-Test" to me. Also related: somebody suggested using a compression test in the place of a Turing test to measuring AI performance. I don't have the refs with me here at home.

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