COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS--NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING--HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
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SULTRY specializes in the solution of
problems that require knowledge of language and computing technology.
Such problems are everywhere: most of what is stored on
computers, just like most of what lives on the web, is information in
the form of various human languages, regardless of whether it is
stored as text, images, sound files, hand movements, or multimedia
presentations.
If computers are now mainly text, text is now mainly digital.* Gone
are the scribes and typewriters, going soon are the sign painters, and
analogue copy machines. Digital text can be manipulated powerfully --
by computers. But language is subtle; its ambiguity, situatedness,
use of world knowledge and metaphor confounds attempts to understand
it automatically. Although we can send human beings to the moon, we
are still unable to have computers understand, use, and translate
between the many different languages and accents with which the world
speaks. These problems are the focus of research at the lab.
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