Great writeup. See
http://www.gagsandgoods.com/index.php?productID=336
for help in case you don’t manage to get an annotated dataset.

Michael.

The one case I’ve seen where you can do better than people is when people with relatively little training and experience have to do a very broad classification in a very time-constrained fashion. The obvious case here is search, but you could argue that’s not natural language enough. A better example is spoken call routing at large call centers, which is sort of part search, part classification, especially at a site like a bank or retailer that has all sorts of products.

- Bob [hey, maybe we should get our own logins?]