On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Dr. Matthias Heger wrote: > Natural communication and language understanding is completely comparable > with common processes in computer science. There is an internal data > representation. A subset of this data is translated into a linguistic string > and transferred to another agent which retranslates the message before it > possibly but not necessarily changes its database. > > The only reason why natural language understanding is so difficult is > because it needs a lot of knowledge to resolve ambiguities which humans > usually gain via own experience. >
Google have just released a video showing their latest language research: The third video, "Applications of Human Language Technology," is a discussion of our enormous progress in large-scale automated translation of languages and speech recognition. Both of these technology domains are coming of age with capabilities that will truly impact what we expect of computers on a day-to-day basis. I discuss these technologies with human language technology experts Franz Josef Och, an expert in the automated translation of languages, and Mike Cohen, an expert in speech processing. <http://research.google.com/roundtable/HLT.html> BillK ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
