Thursday, December 15, 2005

Practical natural language processing, circa 2005 

Jon Udell: Practical natural language processing, circa 2005: "I've wondered for a long time how natural language processing will enter the mainstream. My guess is that email will be the vector. Suppose you could mine email for the following patterns:
REQUEST ACTION BY DATE
DECLINE INVITATION
ASSERT A FACT/OPINION
I've written about this kind of thing before and will again. As with voice recognition, natural language processing isn't likely to deliver major breakthroughs. It's a long slog, but over decades you can look back and see the progress that's been made. Categorizing email and other kinds of interpersonal messages according to the speech acts they express is an age-old challenge, and the goal still eludes us, but it's nice to be reminded from time to time that the enabling technology is slowly but surely maturing. "

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