A glorious example of NLP gone wrong
Nov. 7th, 2010 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I was just checking Zap2it's page on Doctor Who to see if that show was going to be running on anything other than BBC America, which isn't on the cable tier I have... and found out it wasn't going to be, alas. However, I did find this hilarious example of natural language processing gone horribly wrong:

(Description: A screenshot of a listing of Doctor Who-related news, in which the first story is "Elvis Presley's doctor, who was accused after the legendary singer's death of over-prescribing barbiturates, sleeping pills, hormones, narcotics to his famous patient, now says that Elvis died from chronic constipation.")
It took me a while to figure out even how this was relevant, and then I realized it was a naïve keyword-matching algorithm that even ignores punctuation. ::facepalm::
Though I do admit, an episode in which the Doctor and his companion go to visit Elvis could definitely be entertaining!
(Cross-posted from my other blog.)

(Description: A screenshot of a listing of Doctor Who-related news, in which the first story is "Elvis Presley's doctor, who was accused after the legendary singer's death of over-prescribing barbiturates, sleeping pills, hormones, narcotics to his famous patient, now says that Elvis died from chronic constipation.")
It took me a while to figure out even how this was relevant, and then I realized it was a naïve keyword-matching algorithm that even ignores punctuation. ::facepalm::
Though I do admit, an episode in which the Doctor and his companion go to visit Elvis could definitely be entertaining!
(Cross-posted from my other blog.)
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