Natural language processing
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.
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.


