Informatics Seminar (Perspective in Informatics 4B) 2010 - 2011
November 12 (Fri), 16:30 - 18:00
- Place:
Lecture Hall 1, Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.10, Main Campus
- Title:
Natural Language Processing: Promises and Challenges
- Speaker:
Kevin Duh (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
- Abstract:
Language is one of the hallmarks of human civilization. We speak it
everyday; children learn it with ease. Recently, with the growing
abundance of digitized text and computer power, it has become possible
to teach computers to process human language. In the first half of the
seminar, I will give an overview of this exciting field of natural
language processing (NLP). I will discuss how NLP technologies such as
machine translation, information extraction, and sentiment analysis
enable new tools for communication and productivity. I will also
highlight the common challenges, such as the need for robust
linguistic analyzers and scalable statistical learning algorithms. In
the second part of the seminar, I will focus on the topic of machine
translation: I will explain how one can build a basic translator from
scratch, and introduce some recent research on large-scale training of
machine translation systems.
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