Linguistics for the Age of AI

Book Description

This book provides a sophisticated and human-inspired model of language comprehension for intelligent agent systems.
One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to equip intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. However, recent AI research has focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than trying to model what people do and how they do it.

In this book, Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg return to the original goal of recreating human intelligence in a machine. They present a sophisticated, human-inspired model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems that emphasize meaning – the deep, context-sensitive meaning that a person derives from spoken language. or write.

This book summarizes an interesting approach to knowledge-rich natural language understanding, in a linguistic context – using AI agents. Anyone interested in building cognitive systems using language should read this book.

Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg are lecturers in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Linguistics for the Age of AI

Author(s): Marjorie Mcshane

Publisher: MIT Press

ISBN: 9780262362603,9780262045582