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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.corpcomm.net!news.gate.net!nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us!z007400b From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.ada Subject: two agendas of artificial intelligence Date: 18 Oct 1996 15:11:37 GMT Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Broward Lines: 100 Message-ID: <5486n9$3jf@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd:16842 comp.lang.asm.x86:25921 comp.os.msdos.programmer:70419 comp.lang.ada:45943 From nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us!z007400b Fri Oct 18 11:05:19 1996 Path: nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us!z007400b From: z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us (Ralph Silverman) Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.speech,comp.ai.nat-lang,sci.lang,comp.ai.philosophy,comp.ai.alife Subject: two agendas of artificial intelligence Date: 15 Oct 1996 14:24:37 GMT Organization: SEFLIN Free-Net - Broward Lines: 78 Message-ID: <5406r5$dtm@nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us> References: <53t89q$irs@bignews.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: nntp.seflin.lib.fl.us comp.ai:6117 comp.ai.nat-lang:1135 comp.ai.philosophy:11226 comp.ai.alife:1860 mmalcolm crawford (m.crawford@shef.ac.uk) wrote: : The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing at The University of Sheffield : is extending an open invitation to this seminar by Professor Richard Sharman : of IBM (UK) Ltd. If you would like to attend, please contact Malcolm : Crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> (so that we can be sure that there is : sufficient seating!). : Why study language computationally? : or : "Where do we go from here?" : Richard Sharman : IBM (UK) Limited : Thursday 24 October 1996, 2:30 pm : Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building : Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 : Speech and Language have been studied intensively using computational : modelling techniques in the modern era for more than 40 years. Yet a sceptic : might say that the best advances have come from non-linguistic innovations : such as the word-processor and spell-checker, while for most people modern : computer interfaces owe more to visual and tactile interactions, over : linguistic ones, than they ever did. So what is the utility of continuing : research and development in goals such as continuous speech recognition, and : intelligent information extraction, when these are as far away as they have : ever been? Will funding agencies continue to support this field if : breakthroughs are not made, and other media, such as the Internet, become : more fashionable? A personal view of where research and development has : succeeded and failed sheds some light on these questions. : http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Seminars/ : -- -- ***************begin r.s. response****************** natural language recognition certainly is a classic problem of artificial intelligence and, naturally, interesting to researchers... certainly, great progress in this could be made, if appropriate resources were to be applied... why the gloom? perhaps there is a problem here regarding will, priorities and politics ... this can not be technical in its roots!!! an early vision of the future of computer systems involves increasing similarity to humans in the intellectual capacities of these; and this idea certainly is promising of realization... a more recent view (found in more popular publications), is that of the computer as an accessory of a privileged lifestyle, which, of course, in this... is supposed to be enhancing, not threatening, to privilege and to privileged lifestyles... ***************end r.s. response******************** Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us -- Ralph Silverman z007400b@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us