Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
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Telling Stories: Analyzing Text to Understand Personality, Social behavior, and Narratives
Pronouns, prepositions, articles, and other short function words have traditionally been relegated to STOP word status in the AI world. Dozens of studies are summarized pointing to the value of function words in understanding people’s…
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Compressing human text.
I will present a new data compression algorithm that compresses human text more effectively than all current variants of PPM, CTW, DMC, LZ (Lempel-Ziv), LZMA, CSE and BWT. It uses a hierarchical non-parametric sequence model…
