Comments for AGS TechBlog http://www.agstechnet.com/blog A source and journal of ideas Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:52:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Weekend of the Loebner Prize Competition by Stu http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2008/10/12/weekend-of-the-loebner-prize-competition/#comment-15 Stu Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:14:23 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/?p=68#comment-15 A reporter from the London times participated as a judge in this year's contest. His article can be found here: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4934858.ece The short story is that none of the finalists surpassed the 30% threshold to actually win the contest. However, the reporter (Will Pavia) did have some positive comments about the contest and the conversational agents. Physorg.com also posted an article on this year's test at: http://www.physorg.com/news143112740.html This year's Bronze Medal winner was Fred Roberts with his program, Elbot. -Stu A reporter from the London times participated as a judge in this year’s contest. His article can be found here:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4934858.ece

The short story is that none of the finalists surpassed the 30% threshold to actually win the contest. However, the reporter (Will Pavia) did have some positive comments about the contest and the conversational agents.

Physorg.com also posted an article on this year’s test at: http://www.physorg.com/news143112740.html

This year’s Bronze Medal winner was Fred Roberts with his program, Elbot.

-Stu

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]]> Comment on The Really Big List of AI Tools by AGS TechBlog » Blog Archive » Surveys Have Started http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-really-big-list-of-ai-tools/#comment-8 AGS TechBlog » Blog Archive » Surveys Have Started Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:37:34 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-really-big-list-of-ai-tools/#comment-8 [...] This is intended to follow up on my previous post: http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-really-big-list-of-ai-tools/ [...] [...] This is intended to follow up on my previous post: http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-really-big-list-of-ai-tools/ [...]

]]> Comment on A Site or Portal for Natural Language Processing Tools by Stu http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-5 Stu Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:34:44 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-5 Alexandre, Thanks for the comment. I had not previously seen ACLWeb's wiki. It looks good. I have also found that aaai.org keeps a fairly robust set of introductory information and tutorials. Theirs is complete enough that I think another site may not be warranted. It may be better to join with one of those sites and help them improve it. Stu Alexandre,

Thanks for the comment. I had not previously seen ACLWeb’s wiki. It looks good.
I have also found that aaai.org keeps a fairly robust set of introductory information and tutorials. Theirs is complete enough that I think another site may not be warranted.
It may be better to join with one of those sites and help them improve it.

Stu

]]> Comment on A Site or Portal for Natural Language Processing Tools by Alexandre Rafalovitch http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-4 Alexandre Rafalovitch Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:53:03 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-4 I would add visualizers (e.g. for parsers' results) Also, did you have a chance to look at ACLWiki's 'State of the art' section? http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=State_of_the_art I feel that your idea is great. I subscribed to your blog to track how it goes. However, I also feel that unless it is going to be in a visible place, it will not be found and may even suffer the same fate as other very interesting, but barely noticed projects. Having it on a central WIKI (same section or a different one) would make it more visible and therefore easier for it to succeed and stay current. I would add visualizers (e.g. for parsers’ results)

Also, did you have a chance to look at ACLWiki’s ‘State of the art’ section? http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=State_of_the_art

I feel that your idea is great. I subscribed to your blog to track how it goes. However, I also feel that unless it is going to be in a visible place, it will not be found and may even suffer the same fate as other very interesting, but barely noticed projects.

Having it on a central WIKI (same section or a different one) would make it more visible and therefore easier for it to succeed and stay current.

]]> Comment on A Site or Portal for Natural Language Processing Tools by Jerry Ball http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-3 Jerry Ball Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:47:36 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-3 Another name for "Named Entity" is "Onomasticon". This is the term Sergei Nirenburg uses to describe the "Named Entity Lexicon" in his NLP system. A tool that I would very much like to see available is a "Picture-Word" dictionary. We are doing some research in this area with Steve Helmreich and Jim Cowie from New Mexico State University. The idea is to generate a "pictorial representation of meaning" from linguistic input. The key challenge is to figure out how to compose pictures together to generate such representations. For a very simple instance, how to compose a picture for an expression like "the red ball" without having to pre-store all possible combinations of objects and colors. Another name for “Named Entity” is “Onomasticon”. This is the term Sergei Nirenburg uses to describe the “Named Entity Lexicon” in his NLP system.

A tool that I would very much like to see available is a “Picture-Word” dictionary. We are doing some research in this area with Steve Helmreich and Jim Cowie from New Mexico State University. The idea is to generate a “pictorial representation of meaning” from linguistic input. The key challenge is to figure out how to compose pictures together to generate such representations. For a very simple instance, how to compose a picture for an expression like “the red ball” without having to pre-store all possible combinations of objects and colors.

]]> Comment on A Site or Portal for Natural Language Processing Tools by Stu http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-2 Stu Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:11:46 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/11/a-site-or-portal-for-natural-language-processing-tools/#comment-2 From: Stephen Reed [mailto:stephenreed@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:59 AM To: Stu Subject: Re: Penny for your thoughts Stu, I would add to your list the following components: Named Entity Recognition tool, Gazetteers Information Extraction tool (extracts related entities from text) Machine Translation tool Natural Language Dialog front-end tool Best wishes with the portal. Please feel free to post any of my software or RDF files there, or to link to the texai download page on SourceForge. -Steve From: Stephen Reed [mailto:stephenreed@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Stu
Subject: Re: Penny for your thoughts

Stu,

I would add to your list the following components:

Named Entity Recognition tool, Gazetteers
Information Extraction tool (extracts related entities from text)
Machine Translation tool
Natural Language Dialog front-end tool

Best wishes with the portal. Please feel free to post any of my software or RDF files there, or to link to the texai download page on SourceForge.

-Steve

]]> Comment on Hello world! by Stu http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/2007/11/01/hello-world/#comment-1 Stu Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:46:18 +0000 http://www.agstechnet.com/blog/?p=1#comment-1 Hi, feel free to leave comments on any of the posts. Hi, feel free to leave comments on any of the posts.

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