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“experience. An example of such improve nary natural language. The vocabulary though small was ment is Dr. A. L. Samuels' famous checker-playing pro free, and there was unlimited freedom in putting the words gram, which can learn from experience, and which plays together, with”
“character A, as ral language commands dealing with the stacking of blocks in optical character recognition; of various shapes, sizes, and colors. The interpretation of words, as with FORTRAN ex pressions. The main tasks for understanding natural language ap Probably there a”
“13-00000 EDITORIAL The Understanding of Natural Language by Computers Proposition: Computers are making long strides towards mistake occurred, it would inquire of the human program understanding natural language as used by human mer what he meant, suggesting the correctly”
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“stated. For example, when haps 300 to 500 words — knowledge in the sense a speaker exclaims “Ouch!”, a great deal of the meaning that the computer program can attach meaning to comes from the listener’s observations of the speaker. But the words either by themselves or in phras”
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“January, 1972. hesiness can afford or even need an elaborate and Koehn, Hank E. "Are Companies Bugged about Bugging?” esp-nsive security system; thus, evaluation of the Journal of Systems Management. Vol. 24, No. 1, reformation becomes necessary to determine those January, 197”