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INFORMATION System To Help Scientists Analyze Mechanisms Of Social ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
... to enable semantic indexing will be developed by ChengXiang Zhai, professor of computer science and an expert on processing natural language for information ...

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MARKET Central Unveils SourceWare Search Engine for Corporate ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Using sophisticated natural language processing and interactive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms based on automated classification, SourceWare Search ...

MERCURY gives business a role in software QA
ZDNet.com - USA
... New features also include drag-and-drop creation of business process tests, and the use of natural language to construct test components and test cases. ...

CLOSING the gap between business and developers
ADT Magazine - USA
... It has drag-and-drop capabilities, as well as the ability to construct test components and test cases with natural language, scriptless, keyword-driven testing ...

TUVOX Announces TuVox Perfect Router Speech-Enabled Call Routing ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Built completely on open standards, TuVox's enterprise software can automate virtually any type of call -- including natural language call routing, self ...

Text Mining News

VISUAL Analytics Inc. and Basis Technology to Deliver Advanced...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... About Basis Technology Basis Technology provides software solutions for multilingual text mining and information retrieval applications. ...

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CONTACT Centers Await Next-Generation Speech
CRM Daily - USA
... On other hand, he says, with a speech-enabled application built on a natural-language platform, an application can handle a call by asking the customer outright ...

MICROSOFT showcases research initiatives
WindowsForDevices - Palo Alto,CA,USA
... speech recognition, user-interface research, programming tools and methodologies, operating systems and networking, graphics, natural language processing, and ...

Researchers develop data-mining system for biological literature.

RESEARCHERS develop data-mining system for biological literature.
Drug Researcher.com - Montpellier, France

24/09/2004 - Scientists in the US have developed Textpresso, a new text-mining system for scientific literature which implements a unique search engine using ...

Language may shape human thought

www.newscientist.com reports this week about a research project on Pirahã language numerals.

Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study.

./ [a.k.a. slashdot] responded with a lively discussion.

For more interesting stuff about Pirahã check Dan Everett's page.

Mark Liberman at Language Log has a point of view with which I agree. I don't think it's the language that determines the cognitive capacity. I think the cognitive capacity is independent of language as well as physical capacity is independent of hair color.

Pros sort computer translating -- The Washington Times

The Washington Times has a short overview of the summarization and machine translation research going on at U. Maryland and Georgetown.