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What I learned analyzing 7 months of Donald Trump's tweets

Edit Vox 16 May 2016
Donald Trump's Twitter is a running stream of insults, slogans, and media commentary. But since this huge repository of rhetoric is operated by Trump himself, it also offers a glimpse into his unlikely rise. So I decided to analyze it ... Here’s what I found ... This tool uses computational linguistics and natural language processing to determine if each tweet expresses a negative, neutral, or positive overall attitude ... Zachary Crockett / Vox ... ....

How games can help our understanding of language (University of Essex)

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016
The €2.5 million ERC (European Research Council) Advanced Grant was awarded to Professor Massimo Poesio from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), who is renowned as a leading academic in the area of computational linguistics - which involves how computers process and analyse language ... computational linguistics at Essex....

ACI Interview with Scholarly Blogger & PhD Candidate Nick Byrd (ACI Information Group - Newstex LLC)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016
Cognitive science brings together psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, linguists, computer scientists, and other academics ... So while studying cognitive science, I took a course in computational linguistics ... So while taking this course, I figured I'd use the methods of computational corpus linguistics to answer some of my questions about how philosophy and intuition work....

Mathematics, Finance Alumnus Receives Scholarship for PhD Program at Oxford (Belmont University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
Phil Blunsom, an expert in deep learning and computational linguistics who holds joint appointments at Oxford and Google. Trask, along with 2014 computer science graduate David Gilmore, presented research at the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) in France last year ... Neural networks are computer systems that are modeled after the human brain....

Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries CEO, at the ETSI Informáticos (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
The evolution of lexicography in the last generation - beyond a single dictionary print product to multi-language lexical datasets & services interoperable with computational linguistics and artificial ......

A Dangerous Contradiction

Edit Huffington Post 05 Apr 2016
Scientists, students, consumers, and citizens, beware. last month, the U.S ... " HR 3293 - introduced by Lamar Smith, of Texas, on Feb 10 of this year -- -- or the "Scientific Research in the National Interest Act" - is a very big deal ... Advances in drug discoveries are being made by collaborations between biologists and computational linguists who are using some of the same tools for their work ... ....

Sharon Goldwater announced as winner of BCS Roger Needham Award (BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Mar 2016
The award has been made in recognition of her outstanding work in the area of computational linguistics. Sharon Goldwater is a Reader in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics ... Her ground breaking work is extremely innovative and affords important insights into the exciting area of computational linguistics.'....

A lesson in persistence (University of Cape Town)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Mar 2016
Computer science PhD student Joan Byamugisha is focusing on natural language generation in her mother tongue of Runyankore ... I had never used a computer with screen-reading software ... So Joan spent four months learning braille and the necessary computer skills ... 'In a way, that helped', says the ever-positive Joan, 'because there is so much I did not know regarding natural language processing and computational linguistics.'....

Malayalam varsity opens language tech centre

Edit The Hindu 17 Mar 2016
Inaugurating the centre and a national seminar as part of it, Computation Linguistics Professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Girish Nath Jha, praised Malayalam University for its efforts to present Malayalam before the world ... Linguistics professor M ... Linguists V.R....

Academics develop innovative technology to tackle cyberbullies (University of Wolverhampton)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Mar 2016
University of Wolverhampton academics are teaching computers to identify early warning signs of abusive behaviour online in a bid to outsmart cyberbullies. Innovative ways to use technology to tackle abusers are being devised by the University's Computational Linguistics Research Group....

Artificial intelligence could sharpen machines' language skills: Study

Edit The Times of India 08 Mar 2016
"One of the biggest challenges in training computers to understand language is ... The results, published in the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, suggest that a similar approach may lead to improved output from more general language understanding and dialogue systems and information retrieval engines in general....

AI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding language (University of Cambridge)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Mar 2016
Their results, published in the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, suggest that a similar approach may lead to improved output from more general language understanding and dialogue systems and information retrieval engines in general ... Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, [S.l.], v....

Voice-driven games: Dialog Box supports collaborative gaming in a multilingual multi-user environment (Universität des Saarlandes)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Mar 2016
The computational linguist from Saarland University was part of the Dialog Box project in which he and his team worked together with the Austrian games company and project coordinator Mi'pu'mi Games, the Idiap Research Institute, the Swiss company Koemei, the Belgian company Acapela and the German firm Sikom Software ... Assistenzsystem versteht Gespräche von Lotse und Pilot [Computer linguists are making flying safer....
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