Beyond the Buzzwords, with Katherine Munro

Beyond the Buzzwords, with Katherine Munro

How Your Virtual Assistant Knows What You Want (And Gets it Done)

One of the most remarkable things I learned during my studies in Computational Linguistics was that we still don’t know how language is…

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Nov 07, 2020
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A selection of smart devices. Their natural language understanding capabilities are improving all the time. But how?
The natural language understanding capabilities of smart devices are improving all the time. But how? Image: Maria Alberto, Pixabay

One of the most remarkable things I learned during my studies in Computational Linguistics was that we still don’t know how language is processed in the brain. We know that an average human has around 80,000 words in their v…

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