Posted by: Ayanta on: March 30, 2009
Jabberwacky is a chatterbot created by managing director of Icogno Ltd Rollo Carpenter. It’s unique before other artificial intelligences in that it grows by itself, constantly learning from the conversations it holds with different users.
Instead of following fixed rules, the system stores all of the conversations and uses contextual patterns to find the most appropriate [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 22, 2009
Speech recognition converts spoken sounds (captured by a microphone) to readable words. It should not be confused with speaker recognition, which consists in identifying the person speaking by analyzing their voice.
There are two types of speech recognition systems: discrete and continuous. The first requires that the separation between each word be marked clearly, whereas [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 18, 2009
Automatic summarization is the process in which a computer creates an abridged version of any kind of text. As our generation faces an information overload, the ability to shorten documents in one instant has become of great interest.
There are basically two different techniques for producing the summary:
Extraction: Based on keywords and keyphrases. The machine estimates [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 16, 2009
Here is a list with some of the main research topics in the HLT field.
Sorted in alphabetical order:
Automatic Summarization
Grammar Induction
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Discovery
Machine Translation
Natural Language Generation
Ontologies
Semantic Web
Shallow Semantic Parsing
Speech Recognition
Web Mining
References:
International, European and National projects concerned with Language Technology (2009). In Language Technology World. Retrieved March 16, 2009.
Research topics (2009). In The Stanford NLP Group. Retrieved [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 14, 2009
Here are some authoritative definitions of Human Language Technology (also known as Natural Language Processing).
The first one, found at the DFKI webpage, was given by computational linguist Hans Uszkoreit:
Language technology — sometimes also referred to as human language technology — comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 9, 2009
A Web directory is a store of internet sites, organized by subject. These websites are collected by humans and not by a machine, because it is necessary to verify each site’s contents so as to classify them correctly.
They should not be mistaken for search engines, which look through the whole net when performing a search. [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: March 5, 2009
It is said that we belong to the Information Age, a time characterized by the digital revolution and the improvements thus achieved in communicating with others.
In a society where we mean to make knowledge available to everyone, quick and effective translation is speedily becoming a necessity. For this, developers of machine translators investigate the possibilities [...]