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Just wanted to let our small (yet growing) audience that I will probably not be making a lot of additions to the site for the next month or two. Although I won't have much time to dig up new stories, I will still review and post new submissions.

This article from the AI section of About.com presents some interesting definitions of intelligence from some leading authorities.

The article is the second in a series inspired by the movie, A.I.

This article discusses tomorrow's annual Loebner contest at the Science Museum in London. The Loebner contest will award $100,000 to the first person who designs a computer program that can pass a version of the infamous Turing Test.

Speech and Language Processing by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin is an excellent introduction to natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics, and speech recognition.

Flu sent in the following links...

The first, Lexical FreeNet, is sort of a thesaurus meets Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The second is WordNet, a lexical database for the English language.

Here is a page that I came across that contains many software links for natural language processing (NLP). It is maintained by Kenji Kita, a professor in the Department of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at Tokushima University in Japan.

I found this link particularily touching. It is nice to see such a display of empathy from the international community.

Short BBC article introducing some new twists added to neural nets by researchers at University of Sussex, UK.

I just wanted to give a little background about my own research and the E.B.L.A. project. This link to the downloads section allows you to view/download the abstract and introduction to my dissertation proposal titled "Development of a Computational Model for Human Language Acquisition".

Over time I will start adding some of the actual Java code for the model.

Artificial Intelligence NV (Ai), a company based in Israel, has been in the news quite a bit lately with stories of HAL, Windows based software that is acquiring language from scratch based on statistical models and positive/negative feedback. They claim that HAL now has the language ability of an 18-month old baby! You can read stories about HAL here and here.

While I think these guys are on the right track, from what I can tell, HAL's language is not grounded in anything. HAL might be able to correctly use "apple" in a sentence, but has no perceptual knowledge of what an apple is.