The other day after visiting this site: http://testyourvocab.com/, I got an idea of implementing an application where the input is a list of English words, similar to the site mentioned. A user can indicate the words he/she knows among the list and the application will calculate the probability that he/she knows any word specified.
For example, the input list has 100 words, John knows words in the list such as basic words like, think, go, work, etc and harder words like sedulous, vibrissae, uxoricide, etc. From there, the app can estimate with probability 0.7 that he knows the word "parsimonious" as well.
I only have basic understanding of machine learning after taking the online Stanford AI class (I did write a simple spam filter as a result). Thus, I need some pointers to know how I can solve the said problem.
Thank you for reading. Cheers
[link] [4 comments]