Soylent Word Processing

The semantic web is a term that’s often used on the internet to describe the what will be the next “Web 3.0”,where machines will be able to understand the meaning of text/media and make connections for the user. As a method/technology this idea seems very far out, but I ran across this project at MIT which takes an more present day approach to the idea, and I think hints at what a semantic web could look like. Soylent is a Microsoft Word add-in which embeds on demand human decision making, in order to perform three main tasks; Shortening text (Cut down text without meaning loss) Crowdproofing( Proofreading) Human Macro Task (Define, change tense of an article, find references which are out of date, find images which complement text)

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