Public Lecture by Casey Whitelaw (Google Inc, Sydney) -- Language Technology: A View from the Trenches December 8, 2010

Computers that can listen and talk? Helpers that read your books and
answer complex questions? Natural language processing has always made big promises, and has left many people with a healthy dose of
skepticism. The truth is that language technology has had a bigger
impact than you may think, by working behind the scenes. In this
talk, I will discuss the changing role of NLP in applications, and the
trends I have observed over the last 5 years with my work at Google. I
will be focusing on the practicalities of applying NLP techniques to
real-world problems, avoiding common pitfalls, and learning from our
most valuable resource: our users.

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