Natural language processing employs computational techniques for the purpose of learning, understanding, and producing human language content. Early computational approaches to language research focused on automating the analysis of the linguistic structure of language and developing basic technologies such as machine translation, speech recognition, and speech synthesis. Today's researchers re...

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Natural Language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. In theory, natural-language processing is a very attractive method of human-computer interaction. Natural-language understanding is sometimes referred to as an AI-complete problem, because natural-language recognition seems to require ...

The article explores the possibility to construct a unified word feature out of the component features of letters. Each letter is modeled by a different attractor and finally embedded in a quadratic iterated map. The result is the word feature that can account for the meaning extraction process of language understanding. This is a new approach in natural language processing based on the determi...

Open domain Question Answering (QA) is a long standing research problem. Recently, IBM took on this challenge in the context of the Jeopardy! game. Jeopardy! is a wellknown TV quiz show that has been airing on television in the United States for more than 25 years. It pits three human contestants against one another in a competition that requires answering rich natural language questions over a...

Natural languages are languages spoken by humans. Currently we are not yet at the point where these languages in all of their unprocessed forms can be understood by computers. Natural language processing is the collection of techniques employed to try and accomplish that goal. The field of natural language processing (NLP) is deep and diverse, This paper will introduce natural language understa...

The goal of this research is to develop a spoken language system that will demonstrate the usefulness of voice input for interactive problem solving. The system will accept continuous speech, and will handle multiple speakers without explicit speaker enrollment. Combining speech recognition and natural language processing to achieve speech understanding, the system will be demonstrated in an ap...

This paper presents a language model and its application to sentence structure manipulations for various natural language applications including human-computer communications. Building a working natural language dialog systems requires the integration of solutions to many of the important subproblems of natural language processing. In order to materialize any of these subproblems, handling of n...

This article presents the Edite system, a Natural Language Interface for Databases (NLIDB), that tries to explore the advantages of joining natural language processing with the expressiveness of graphical interfaces. In order to guarantee a permanent adaptation of this type of solution to a dynamic domain one should consider two critical fundamental factors: extensibility and portability. An ov...