Articles Tagged: Natural language interfaces
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Talking to computers in natural language
Natural language understanding is as old as computing itself, but recent advances in machine learning and the rising demand of natural-language interfaces make it a promising time to once again tackle the long-standing challenge.
By Percy Liang, October 2014
To err is human, to correct is divine
Technology has made language learning a more interactive and enjoyable experience, but it has never been smart enough to replace human tutors. However, the latest advances in automated grammatical error correction open up new horizons. Could software ever replace our language teachers?
By Mariano Felice, Zheng Yuan, October 2014
Ancient Sumerian online
Far from its beginnings as symbols pressed into clay tablets, Ancient Sumerian is now being digitized and shared through cutting edge semantic web technologies.
By Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, October 2014
Detecting influencers in social media discussions
Knowing who's influential can help when planning political campaigns, advertising strategies, or even combating terrorism; and now research into influence detection promises to automate such detection.
By Sara Rosenthal, October 2014
Spoken dialogue systems
Wouldn't it be great if we could simply talk to our technical devices instead of relying on cumbersome displays and keyboards to convey what we want?
By Pierre Lison, Raveesh Meena, October 2014
A hybrid system for code switch point detection in informal Arabic text
How to detect the switch between a standard and a dialectal form of a language in written text and why this is important for natural language processing tasks.
By Heba Elfardy, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Mona Diab, October 2014
Towards a user-friendly semantic formalism for natural language generation
Computational semantics has become an interesting and important branch of computational linguistics. Born from the fusion of formal semantics and computer science, it is concerned with the automated processing of meaning associated with natural language expressions [2]. Systems of semantic representation, hereafter referred to as semantic formalisms, exist to describe meaning underlying natural language expressions. To date, several formalisms have been defined by researchers from a number of diverse disciplines including philosophy, logic, psychology and linguistics. These formalisms have a number of different applications in the realm of computer science. For example, in machine translation a sentence could be parsed and translated into a series of semantic expressions, which could then be used to generate an utterance with the same meaning in a different language [14]. This paper presents two existing formalisms and examines their user-friendliness. Additionally, a new form of semantic representation is proposed with wide coverage and user-friendliness suitable for a computational linguist.
By Craig Thomas, December 2008
Ultimate car entertainment systems
By Nick Datzov, December 2006
Using perception in managing unstructured documents
By Ching Kang Cheng, Xiaoshan Pan, October 2005