HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES

Human language techonology or HLT, it’s not only composed of computational linguistics, but also of speech technology. It’s important also to bear in mind, that Human Language Technology or Language technology is connected to both, computer science and general linguistics.

According to Hans Uszkoreit : “human language technology comprises computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices that are specialized for analyzing, producing or modifying texts and speech.” Apart from that, he also points out that we have to take into account that: “these systems must be based on some knowledge of human language. Therefore language technology defines the engineering branch of computational linguistics.”

YORICK WILKS & MARTIN KAY (Questionnaire 1)

 In this article I’m going to talk about some relevant researchers in the area of Human Language Technologies: Yorick Wilks and Martin Kay. Even so, we should have in mind that apart from those two, there are also other significant researches. For example: Hans Uszkoreit, Fabian M. Suchanek and Silviu Cucerzan.

YORICK WILKS
Yorick Wilks works as a Professor of Computer Science at Sheffield University. There, he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He has been teaching and researching also at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Univesities. So he has worked hardly and traveled a lot. It’s important to mention that among other participations, he’s a member of the European and American Societies for Artificial Intelligence; so it’s clear that apart from having interest in the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief, he also has concern over artificial intelligence. At the OII, known as Oxford Internet Institute, he will be going after a project that consist on the possibility of machines having recognizable personalities.