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For the next Unicode emoji extension, we might as well just take a word vector model and PCA project it into the Unicode 1 dimensional space. Somebody who is be
by ampdepolymerase 5y ago
For the next Unicode emoji extension, we might as well just take a word vector model and PCA project it into the Unicode 1 dimensional space. Somebody who is better at linear algebra should comment and tell me how wrong I am.
- kortex 5y agoIt's brilliant, but horrible, since you need somewhere between 300 and 1000 dimensions of floating point word vector semantic space to get good separation. Maybe it's shrunk since I last checked. Even with less granularity, that's still like 256 bytes per grapheme. I think this would be great for machine translation though.
- _nalply 5y agoSignWriting, a writing system for Signed Languages, would need something like this, because rotation and location of the graphemes matter. Imagine the letter a being rotated by 45 degrees and moved to the upper left corner of the drawing area. How would you encode this? There's a symbol for the torso, for the fist, for touch and for the strongness of touch. If you hit your own shoulder with a fist with the knuckles facing upwards, you rotate the symbol for the fist, paint the torso and the fist next to each other and put the touch symbol approximately where the shoulder would be. https://signwriting.org/ https://signwriting.org/