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DESCRIPTION:    Processing Human Language by Computer: Advances and Challen
 ges\n        Professor Rob Gaizauskas\, University of Sheffield\n\nIn his l
 andmark 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"\,\nAlan Turing pr
 oposed conversation as the ultimate test of machine\nintelligence: if we ca
 nnot distinguish a computer from a human in\nconversation then we may deem 
 the computer intelligent. Turing also\nspeculated that computers would achi
 eve this capability by the year\n2000. 2000 has now come and gone\, and des
 pite the phenomenal advances\nin computing since 1950\, the "Turing Test" h
 as not yet been\npassed. Why not? And what have computer scientists\, compu
 tational\nlinguists and artificial intelligence researchers been up to in t
 he\ninterim in order to get computers to "understand" human language?\n\nIn
  this talk I will discuss just what it is that makes human language\nso dif
 ficult for computers to interpret and describe some of the\napproaches that
  researchers have taken to address this problem. While\nthe holy grail of h
 uman-like language understanding remains illusive\,\nsignificant advances h
 ave been made\, advances that are leading to a\nimproved language processin
 g capabilities embedded in applications\nranging from question answering an
 d text mining to machine\ntranslation\, task-based dialogue systems and pla
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LOCATION:S1 2BX  The Showroom Cafe     www.showroom.org.uk
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Cafe Scientifique Sheffield
TRANSP:OPAQUE
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