Natural Language Understanding: Foundations and State-of-the-Art

author: Percy Liang, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
published: Dec. 5, 2015,   recorded: October 2015,   views: 6606
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Building systems that can understand human language—being able to answer questions, follow instructions, carry on dialogues—has been a long-standing challenge since the early days of AI. Due to recent advances in machine learning, there is again renewed interest in taking on this formidable task. A major question is how one represents and learns the semantics (meaning) of natural language, to which there are only partial answers. The goal of this tutorial is (i) to describe the linguistic and statistical challenges that any system must address; and (ii) to describe the types of cutting edge approaches and the remaining open problems. Topics include distributional semantics (e.g., word vectors), frame semantics (e.g., semantic role labeling), model-theoretic semantics (e.g., semantic parsing), the role of context, grounding, neural networks, latent variables, and inference. The hope is that this unified presentation will clarify the landscape, and show that this is an exciting time for the machine learning community to engage in the problems in natural language understanding.

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Comment1 F.M., September 26, 2016 at 3:19 a.m.:

Disappointing. I personnaly believe that had the camera been focused on Mr. Liang's presentation on the screen instead of on his face, it might have been possible to truly enjoy what he said.
Idiotic way of taping a lecture.

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