A "Bridge" not too far
| Valeria de Paiva | Cuil, Inc. | [Home Page] |
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Date: Thursday January 21, 2010 at 16:00
Location: AE201 (SRI A building) (Directions)
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For many years (from 2000 to May 2008) I worked with PARCs natural language processing group on technologies for (automatically) creating logical forms out of natural language sentences. This lofty goal was somewhat mocked and derided by friends both in logic and in computer science. Logicians supported by the view that natural language is too complicated for logic, computer scientists convinced that all virtue lies with statistics and logic has no part in it. I believe both sets of friends are wrong and that the project, which is the Holy Grail of several other groups of researchers, is very much alive and up for grabs. That judiciously picking of competing alternatives (in the vast space of possibilities) is a first step and that Open Source software is the right way of doing it. In this talk I would like to summarize what I learned, what I think would work best and I want to try to sketch how one could go about it. Also I would like to get at least some conclusions of what has been achieved and what small projects one could easily do to put in place a few more pieces of the big puzzle. |
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Valeria de Paiva is a is a mathematician and computer scientist based in Cupertino, CA. She works as a search analyst for Cuil, Inc. in Menlo Park, CA. She was (until 2nd May 2008) a research scientist at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. She received her PhD in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1988 for work on "Dialectica Categories", under Martin Hylands supervision, and has ever since worked on logical approaches to computation, especially using Category Theory. Shes also an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. |
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