Linguistics for the Age of AI

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By Marjorie McShane*98 and Sergei Nirenburg

Published March 23, 2021

While artificial intelligence was once intended to endow machines with natural language capabilities, recent AI research focuses mostly on statistical and machine learning approaches to big data. In this book, Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg explore the goal of recreating human-level language capabilities in a machine.

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