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Natural Language

Natural Language is the language used from one human to another ? English, French, Greek, Latin ? as opposed to languages computers have traditionally understood.

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.



Related Dictionary Entries for Natural Language:

AI

Artificial Intelligence

Chat Bot

Chatbot

Chatterbot

CI

Computational Linguistics

Conversational Interface

Fuzzy Logic

Interactive Voice Response

IVR

Knowbot

Natural Language

Natural Language Interface

Natural Language Query

Neurolinguistics

Spoken Language Interface

The Chinese Room Paradox

Translation

Voice Control

Voice Recognition



 

Resources in our database matching the Term Natural Language:

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Locally Hosted resource
Natural Language Processing For Multi-User Virtual Worlds
This expansive, and well-written article takes a look at how to implement a more natural language system, to enable the parsing of more complex commands in text-based virtual worlds. Contains code, orientated towards MOO/MUSH developers.









Linked resource
You Play my Language?
An exotic stranger smiles at you. You approach with a coy ease, looking up and down at the gorgeous visuals this person is putting on, intrigued by the prospect of an intense interaction. You say hi, casually introduce yourself, maybe tell a joke, but there is a problem: This person does not speak your language. Designing round language problems in virtual worlds.



Linked resource
Building Blocks: Names
A bit of a hybrid between a coding resource and a building resource, this looks at parsers, and the difficulty in getting natural language interaction between rooms, objects, and players.



Linked resource
Mudding with Language Barriers
?In a global community, language has no limits and interpretation is sometimes misleading.?



Locally Hosted resource
Chatbots > ELIZA
ELIZA was the first chatbot to be created, originally back in the 1960s. A real-time natural language processor and response program, she was born in MIT, written by Joseph Weizenbaum. Several versions were created over the period spanning 1964 - 1966.




Within the adult VR world Taurius is the Academy of Sign Learning allows two people to carry on a conversation in American Sign Language (ASL), across the internet, teaching those with good hearing, a language of those without.




Locally Hosted resource
Large Image Display: Chrysalis: Natural User Interface in Surveilance
Part two of a short series looking at the French film Chrysalis (2007)'s take on Natural User Interfaces. This focusses on a slightly more advanced form of touchscreen display; dealing with video data in such a way as to feel totally natural, even to a non-computer-user.



 

Industry News containing the Term Natural Language:

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(24/08/2011)
Use of natural language processing, such as in the form of free-text searches of electronic medical records (EMRs) of clinical and progress notes of patients performed better at identifying postoperative surgical complications than the comm...


(12/07/2006)
As virtual worlds become increasingly sophisticated and popular, a new problem is emerging: That of players who do not understand one another's languages.

Several MMOs and social worlds are currently working on their own,. i...


(11/08/2009)
A Chinese semantic network with semantic (argument structure) annotation was built and investigated for finding its global statistical properties. The results show that semantic network is also small-world and scale-free but it is different...


(24/09/2009)
Many of us learn a foreign language when we are young, but in some cases, exposure to that language is brief and we never get to hear or practice it subsequently. Our subjective impression is often that the neglected language completely fad...


(28/01/2009)
Researchers at the University of Essex hope to answer this question by getting more volunteers to take part in their online game, Phrase Detectives.

Jon Chamberlain, from Essex's School of Computer Science and Electronic Eng...