Natural language processing

Zue awarded Okawa Prize

November 9, 2012

Honored for work in speech science and spoken-language systems

Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Electrical engineering and electronics, Faculty, Global, Language, Spoken language systems

Mining physicians’ notes for medical insights

October 31, 2012

A new approach to algorithmically distinguishing words with multiple possible meanings could help find useful data in electronic medical records.

Also labeled: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Electrical engineering and electronics, Machine learning, Words, Word-sense disambiguation

The advantage of ambiguity

January 19, 2012

Cognitive scientists develop a new take on an old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings.

Also labeled: Brain and cognitive sciences, Computer science and technology, Human-computer interaction, Language, Linguistics

Health care of the future

July 6, 2011

The Clinical Decision Making Group looks to advance health care by applying natural-language processing techniques to make better sense of medical records.

Also labeled: Computer science and technology, Electronic medical records

Computer automatically deciphers ancient language

June 30, 2010

A new system that took a couple hours to decipher much of the ancient language Ugaritic could help improve online translation software.

Also labeled: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Computer science and technology, Language