"I have always believed (well, at least for the past 15 years) that the way to get better understanding of text is through statistics rather than through hand-c

"I have always believed (well, at least for the past 15 years) that the way to get better understanding of text is through statistics rather than through hand-crafted grammars and lexicons. The statistical approach is cheaper, faster, more robust, easier to internationalize, and so far more effective." Thats how google is attacking the "parsing text problem" to find meaning. [0] Not with regular expressions, rules or clever AI hacks. Just plain old math. [0] Attributed to Peter Norvig. Here's an example of what is suggested. A spell checker in about 25 lines python (old but good) ~ http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html