Wow, how long has it been since I’ve encountered an area of scientific research and thought “that would be really cool to work on!” But this article on computational linguistics really captured my imagination.
I was beginning to wonder if I even still had an imagination.
Check this out:
“Traditionally, decipherment has been viewed as a sort of scholarly detective game, and computers weren’t thought to be of much use,” Barzilay said. “Our aim is to bring to bear the full power of modern machine learning and statistics to this problem.” – extracted from the article below at www.mnn.com:
Don Appleby has served since 2004 as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he teaches in the Information Engineering and Management Program. He has over three decades of professional experience in the information technology industry. Prof. Appleby is retired from IBM.Thanks to ProfAppleby.com for this article.
