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Daniel Colón-Ramos: Observing and making connections

T he nematode C. elegans has exactly 302 neurons, and we know the developmental lineage and physical position of each of these cells within the organism. We also have the " connectome " : a wiring diagram of the C. elegans nervous system that tells us exactly which neurons are connected to each other. We know a lot about the nervous system of this organism, yet we don't know how its neuronal co...

RI-TAL : le TAL au service de la RI

How may Natural Language Processing serve Information Retrieval? This paper provides some clues in the context of the implementation of a search engine within an industrial application, TokTokTok, that gathers a large set of heterogeneous data about products of many kinds. We demonstrate that the enrichment of the database by semantic treatments improves the results of the search engine. On the...

On-line Generation of Fra tal and MultiFra tal Traffi

Pour un TAL responsable

Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved in recent years along with societal concerns. Various committees were introduced in order to brainstorm on the consequences of these developments. These authorities are also concerned by Natural Language Processing (NLP), not only as a subfield of AI but also as a specific field with which it interacts. In this article we review the links between AI and ...

Du TAL au TIL

position paper. Historically two types of NLP have been investigated: fully automated processing of language by machines (NLP) and autonomous processing of natural language by people, i.e. the human brain (psycholinguistics). We believe that there is room and need for another kind, INLP: interactive natural language processing. This intermediate approach starts from peoples’ needs, trying to br...