Automatic Distillation of Structure (ADIOS) is an algorithm

Algorithm

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 that can analyse source material such as text and come up with meaningful information about the generative structures that gave rise to the source. One application of the algorithm is grammar

Grammar

In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics,...

 induction

Inductive reasoning

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: ADIOS can read a source text and infer grammatical rules based on structures and patterns found in the text. Using these, the system can then generate new well-structured sentences.

ADIOS was developed by Zach Solan, David Horn, and Eytan Ruppin from Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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, Israel

Israel

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, and Shimon Edelman from Cornell University

Cornell University

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, New York

New York

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, USA

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