Category Archives: Natural Language Processing

“Do you love me?”​ How can a computer deal with real sentences?

Posted on January 22, 2020 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Prof. Roger Shank just published an article with this title. He writes: “My career was in Natural Language Processing which is only one part of AI. I spent my life trying to figure out ways that computers could understand sentences … Continue reading →

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Breakthrough in Google Search

Posted on October 28, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On Oct. 25 Pandu Nayak, Google Fellow and Vice President of Search, published an article “Understanding Searches Better Than Ever Before“.  “Search is about understanding language. The latest advancements from our research team in the science of language understanding–made possible … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Specification and Querying

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Our colleagues from the Rules and Reasoning community have just reported interesting results. They built a system that achieves 100% accuracy on an extensive test suite of movie-related questions, e.g. “Who appears in a Steven Spielberg directed film?”. Their approach … Continue reading →

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Beyond Chatbots: Hyper-Personalized, Intelligent Assistants

Posted on May 7, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Voss, CEO at Aigo.ai, published the article with this name in Forbes: “Recent years have seen a proliferation of chatbots and so called ‘personal assistants.’ These supposedly serve both the convenience of the user.. However, these bots often realize poor … Continue reading →

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Alexa for Insurers

Posted on April 2, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant that powers Amazon’s Echo, is a tool insurance companies are using to leverage voice recognition and increase their value to their customers. Liberty Mutual offers its customers the option to use Alexa to get an auto … Continue reading →

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Google Announced a new Speech Recognizer

Posted on March 18, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Google has announced the rollout of an end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer based on the latest machine learning capabilities. “Our new all-neural, on-device Gboard speech recognizer is initially being launched to all Pixel phones in American English only. Given the … Continue reading →

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The same Challenges for AI and Decision Models

Posted on December 17, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Peter Voss just quoted this Harvard Business Review’s article: “The scientific community is good at building AI models that perform a single task really well. But more intuitive, conversational, and contextual interfaces will require an AI model that learns continuously — … Continue reading →

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Progress in Natural Language Processing

Posted on November 21, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

In August, researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a lab based in Seattle, unveiled an English test for computers. It examined whether machines could complete sentences. In October Google researchers unveiled a a new language representation model called Bert. These new language … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Chatboats for Commercial Interactions

Posted on November 15, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The NY Times Magazine published an article called “INTELLIGENT CHATBOTS COULD AUTOMATE AWAY NEARLY ALL OF OUR COMMERCIAL INTERACTIONS”. Andrew NG tweeted today: “Great article about how chatbots like HiWoebot will be one of the most important applications of NLP. … Continue reading →

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The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding

Posted on October 5, 2018 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Walid Saba published a short presentation on the difference between Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and why the data-driven approach, while useful for some NLP tasks, is irrelevant to NLU. Link

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