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Matt Mahoney  
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 More options Jun 17 2005, 10:51 pm
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From: "Matt Mahoney" <matmaho...@yahoo.com>
Date: 17 Jun 2005 19:51:02 -0700
Local: Fri, Jun 17 2005 10:51 pm
Subject: Re: The C-Prize
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jim_bow...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Well obviously I was thinking too big for an early contest.

> Perhaps Wikipedia would suffice:

> http://download.wikimedia.org/#wikipedia

> The current english language edition, gzipped, is about 1GB, but as you
> see, there are many Wikipedias in different languages.  I doubt they
> total over 4GB gzipped.

Nice choice.  Lots of contributors, lots of topics, high quality.

> PS:  Another reason I'd like to see huge corpora ultimately is that I'd
> really like to see this system beat humans by a substantial amount:
> We're so stupid we desperately need all the help we can get.

When computers are smarter than humans, how will we know?

-- Matt Mahoney


 
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