{"id":62457,"date":"2012-12-06T22:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T22:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/teaching-computers-to-talk-alistair-knott-at-tedxauckland-video.php"},"modified":"2012-12-06T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T22:43:26","slug":"teaching-computers-to-talk-alistair-knott-at-tedxauckland-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/artificial-intelligence\/teaching-computers-to-talk-alistair-knott-at-tedxauckland-video.php","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Computers To Talk: Alistair Knott at TEDxAuckland &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>Teaching Computers To Talk: Alistair Knott at TEDxAuckland<br \/>Alistair Knott is a linguist and cognitive scientist working at Otago University #39;s Department of Computer Science. He grew up in Brussels, attending the European School, a multilingual institution whose Babel-like environment sparked a lifelong interest in language. Ali studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University, and then did postgraduate and postdoctoral work in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He took up a lectureship at Otago in 1999, where he is now an associate professor. Ali #39;s research is in computational modelling of human language, with a focus on models of language generation. He worked on some of the earliest text generation systems deployed on the World Wide Web, and on an influential web-based human-computer dialogue system. His current interest is in psychological models of text generation: What are the neural mechanisms which allow people to talk about what they see and do? Alistair #39;s book Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax is published by MIT Press this month. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedxauckland.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.tedxauckland.com<\/a> AboutTEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference ...From:TEDxTalksViews:31    0ratingsTime:18:34More inScience   Technology<br \/><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Link: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qhqLoTKBRz0\" title=\"Teaching Computers To Talk: Alistair Knott at TEDxAuckland - Video\">Teaching Computers To Talk: Alistair Knott at TEDxAuckland - Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Teaching Computers To Talk: Alistair Knott at TEDxAuckland Alistair Knott is a linguist and cognitive scientist working at Otago University&#39;s Department of Computer Science. He grew up in Brussels, attending the European School, a multilingual institution whose Babel-like environment sparked a lifelong interest in language. Ali studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University, and then did postgraduate and postdoctoral work in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/artificial-intelligence\/teaching-computers-to-talk-alistair-knott-at-tedxauckland-video.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}