Giving a talk at NCCU while I am in Taiwan this summer, entitled Creating a Virtual Language Tutor that Understands Learner Speech . Not the most exciting of titles, I know. Feel free to ask me if you are interested in attending. Here is the abstract.
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Talk at NCCU
27-May-05Spam in the Post-Turing-Test World
22-May-05The recent combination of getting a lot of pseudo-conversational-type email spam, and getting to know an online friend whom I’ve never met in real life has triggered an interesting thought: When (if) we solve the AI-hard thing, when we’re able to make virtual agents that can carry on conversations and social interactions just like real […]
Thru Which Lenses?
20-May-05It all depends on which set of glasses you use to look at reality, I guess… Another entry from McSweeny’s lists: Three Items at the Supermarket I See in a New Way, Now That I’ve Read Some Books on Literary Theory. This is brilliant. // TODO: insert witty and sublime metaphor about Supermarkets and Life […]
Summer Taiwan Trip
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¡Libertad!
11-May-05As of Monday evening, I finished the last final exam I’ll most likely ever take in my life. Wow. It really was a whimper-type rather than a bang-type ending. The class was Algorithms, the one that I’d put off taking for all of my academic career ’til now. Not because it’s not an interesting subject […]
On Things Folksonomic
04-May-05Stefano’s Linotype has a good essay on emergent folksonomy, especially how it applies to del.icio.us and the different-people-use-the-same-word-to-mean-different-things problem. His solution to colliding semantics is to augment syntax to document things. This is good, but it overlooks the fact that I myself might use the same tag to refer to different things.