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What is Natural Language Processing?
• Halo's Cortana AI
o Made from models of a real human brain
o Made to run the ship
o Made very human conversations
• Ender's Game series: Jane
o Made from "philotic connection"
o Human conversation
Problems of Human-Computer Dialogue
• Important for:
o accessing information in a foreign language
o communication with speakers of other languages
• The majority of documents on the world wide web are in
languages other than English
Statistical Translation
• Rule based
• Works relatively well with large sets of data
• Used probability to translate text
• Natural translations
• Google
Example Based Translation
• Goal:
o Aim to be able to flawlessly translate languages
• Link Human-Computer Dialogue and Machine Translation
• Have someone be able to talk in one language to a computer,
translate for another person
• Translated Video Chat
Machine Translation in Fiction