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- Luc Steels on creating artificial semiotic systems
In this post I’m just presenting an organized version of the notes I’ve taken after reading a beautiufl paper by Luc Steels, titled: “The Symbol Grounding Problem has been solved. So What’s Next?“. Who is Luc Steels? Steels is a Belgian scientist working in area of embodied cognition and robotics. The post is organized as […]
- NLP for Classical Studies
If you’re into humanities computing and NLP, you might want to check out the eAqua project. eAqua stands for ‘Extraction of structured knowledge from ancient sources’, and it’s a project that combines various text mining techniques to extract information for ancient texts. The eAqua-project aims at generating specific knowledge from ancient texts and will provide […]
- A doctor hidden in your mac
I have never heard about this before, but as it turns out OS X comes with the simulated therapy program, Eliza, pre-installed. Eliza was written at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum between 1964 to 1966, and it was one of the early examples of natural language processing. On OSX, Eliza is ‘hidden’ inside the eMacs application. […]