This is happening now in deep learning. Deep autoencoders[1] are allowing for computer representations of "similar" concepts. I recently gave a talk on this ver

This is happening now in deep learning. Deep autoencoders[1] are allowing for computer representations of "similar" concepts. I recently gave a talk on this very concept to assist in QA systems. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/ir-34811120 http://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/ir-34811120