DEPARTMENT: Labz
Building a Pipeline for Real-Time Topical Polling: Grove City College
By Kenneth Browder, Jonathan Allarassem, May 2024
Articles Tagged: Natural language processing
Articles & Features
SECTION: Features
ChatGPT for Next Generation Science Learning
This article pilots ChatGPT in tackling the most challenging part of science learning and found it successful in automation of assessment development, grading, learning guidance, and recommendation of learning materials.
By Xiaoming Zhai, April 2023
ChatGPT in Education: Partner or Pariah?
ChatGPT has taken the world by storm, with educators reeling from its implication for curricula and assessment. This article examines how ChatGPT resembles earlier technologies and predicts how we can expect it to impact education going forward.
By David A. Joyner, April 2023
DEPARTMENT: Hello World
The Inexplicable Efficacy of Language Models
By Rachith Aiyappa, Zoher Kachwala, April 2023
SECTION: Features
How to tame your chatbot
The best way to stop a bad chatbot spreading misinformation may be a good chatbot providing facts. But how can we deploy these bots on short notice without compromising quality and user privacy?
By Fiete Lüer, September 2020
The AI revolution
This article explores the areas of bias in natural language processing, from the tools that are used to analyze the data to the fundamental theories in the field. It delves deeper into the very idea that the data that is analyzed (language) itself shapes human perception of reality, and evolves over time.
By Talia Kohen, April 2019
DEPARTMENT: Hello World
Sorry kids, Iron Man's superpowers aren't unique
By Lara Zupan, Marinka Zitnik, November 2015
SECTION: Features
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
From wax tablets to touchscreens
How we can enable users to transmit text to mobile and ubiquitous computer systems as quickly and as accurately as possible.
By Per Ola Kristensson, 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
Miriam Plieninger on language learning with Babbel
Babbel's Director of Didactics, Miriam Plieninger, weighs in on how mobile apps are rapidly changing the way we approach language learning.
By Daniel Bauer, Billy Rathje, October 2014
DEPARTMENT: Labz
National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
By Georgios Kontonatsios, Matt Shardlow, October 2014
SECTION: Features
Linguistic structure prediction with the sparseptron
Recent advances in natural language processing bring together rich representations and scalable machine learning algorithms.
By Noah A. Smith, André F. T. Martins, March 2013
Designing good MapReduce algorithms
An introduction to designing algorithms for the MapReduce framework for parallel processing of big data.
By Jeffrey D. Ullman, September 2012
Profile Jeff Dean
Big data at Google
By Edward Z. Yang, Robert J. Simmons, September 2012
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, December 2008
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
An approach for detecting prosodic phrase boundaries in spoken english
Prosodic phrasing is the means by which speakers of any given language break up an utterance into meaningful chunks. The term "prosody" itself refers to the tune or intonation of an utterance, and therefore prosodic phrases literally signal the end of one tune and the beginning of another. This study uses phrase break annotations in the Aix-MARSEC corpus of spoken English as a "gold standard" for measuring the degree of correspondence between prosodic phrases and the discrete syntactic grouping of prepositional phrases, where the latter is defined via a chunk parsing rule using nltk_lite's regular expression chunk parser.
A three-way comparison is also introduced between the "gold standard" chunk parsing rule and human judgment in the form of intuitive predictions about phrasing. Results show that even with a discrete syntactic grouping and a small sample of text, problems may arise for this rule-based method due to uncategorical behavior in parts of speech. Lack of correspondence between intuitive prosodic phrases and corpus annotations highlights the optional nature of certain boundary types. Finally, there are clear indications, supported by corpus annotations, that significant prosodic phrase boundaries occur within sentences and not just at full stops.
By Claire Brierley, Eric Atwell, December 2007
Getting started on natural language processing with Python
By Nitin Madnani, September 2007
Introduction
By William Stevenson, October 2005
Using perception in managing unstructured documents
By Ching Kang Cheng, Xiaoshan Pan, October 2005
Using perception in managing unstructured documents
By Ching Kang Cheng, Xiaoshan Pan, December 2003