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SUMMARY:Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Syste
 ms - Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
DTSTART:20211022T110000Z
DTEND:20211022T120000Z
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CONTACT:Huiyuan Xie
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 e: 812664\n\nThe early vision of AI included the goal of endowing intellig
 ent systems with human-like language processing capabilities. This proved 
 harder than expected\, leading the vast majority of natural language proce
 ssing practitioners to pursue less ambitious\, shorter-term goals. Whereas
  the utility of human-like language processing is unquestionable\, its fea
 sibility is quite justifiably questioned. In this talk\, I will not only a
 rgue that some approximation of human-like language processing is possible
 \, I will present a program of R&D that is working on making it a reality.
  This vision\, as well as progress to date\, is described in the book Ling
 uistics for the Age of AI (MIT Press\, 2021).
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