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RSS language naturalHalf of UK's rail enquiries calls to be offshored to India
News A BT spokesman told silicon.com that due to the high turnover of call centre staff most of the positions moved to India would be down to natural wastage and staff turnover rather than redundancies. The new contracts cover the answering of telephone... [04 Feb 2004]
The Director's Cut: Eight secrets of marrying IT and business
Comment It feels like a drain on natural resources. Ban mystery and the strange language that is a disease to our future. What goes around comes around. Just when we were on the point of convincing our chief executives that we are an investment worth... [03 Dec 2003]
Ontologies for Integrating Engineering Applications
White Paper Often, the loosely defined natural-language definitions associated with the terms will be too ambiguous to make the differences evident, or will not provide enough information to resolve the differences. [14 Aug 2003]
Google's crown confirmed by 'new' rating system
News Ask Jeeves, a so-called natural language query engine, scored a 75 per cent conversion rate. But the company's conclusion that Google leads the search site pack, with Yahoo close behind, is unlikely to provoke controversy. [30 Apr 2003]
Through the fog... Automated speech recognition
Comment Imagine a larger multi-user version of the natural language embedded systems described above that runs on a serious computing platform and can be accessed by any user over a telephone line. This is known as a natural language approach, allowing the... [21 Feb 2003]
IBM: Pervasive computing is the future
News In the 2002 version of the Honda Accord, the technology allows you to interact with the car using natural language statements, such as "where is the nearest restaurant? Pervasive computing is here and it's going to enter most aspects of your life... [30 Jan 2003]
IBM aims to get smart about artificial intelligence
News Automated language translation and natural language processing also would become feasible. In the coming months, IBM will unveil technology that it believes will vastly improve the way computers access and use data by unifying the different schools... [20 Jan 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Christmas letters
Comment Just because we now take it for granted, we tend to suppose that writing is easy and almost as natural as speech. On reflection it seems that what we take to be the natural way to create written communications is actually the outcome of millennia... [07 Jan 2003]
AltaVista searches for a new image
News In addition, AltaVista will give web surfers a button labeled "More Precision," which will search for pages based on natural-language questions. In the current world of search engines, less is more - and AltaVista is angling for both. [11 Nov 2002]
Autonomy enlisted in war on terror
News The agencies - which include the FBI and departments of Defense, Commerce, Energy and Justice - have been attracted to the technology from the UK company because it allows natural language links to be identified and analysed between various text... [21 Oct 2002]
Tablet PC speaks in tongues, but not all
News Many companies, including Microsoft, IBM and Intel, among others, are focusing on Asia for their research on natural interfaces such as speech and handwriting recognition. The recognition takes years to develop in a given language," Raikes said. [25 Sep 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Screen tests
Comment By using my mobile phone as an entry device, I would be able to dial into that screen and talk to the computer using natural spoken language - and keys. Natural conversation between man and machine as illustrated in the movie 2001 is still a long... [22 Aug 2002]
Can a new search engine upstart reign supreme?
News A Californian start-up is planning to swipe corporate customers from Ask Jeeves in a battle of the natural language search engines. InQuira claims to have superior technology which gives 85 per cent accuracy on answers to questions posed by people... [11 Jun 2002]
Autonomy makes TV debut
News Channel Four also believes it will be able to give visitors a "richer experience" using Autonomy's technology to allow them to use natural language on the site. Autonomy has followed-up its Hutchison 3G contract announced last week with a deal with... [05 Mar 2002]
Microsoft's must-win grasp for developer hearts and minds
Comment So it was today when a trip - albeit just up the road to the Natural History Museum - was warranted by two silicon staffers for the official coming out party for Microsoft's .Net developer toolkit, Visual Studio .Net. [13 Feb 2002]
