Computers Will Speak Naturally One Day
Matt Cockerill notes London Observer Service that speech recognition is advancing but true natural language understanding remains distant. Challenges include phoneme sampling, word boundary ambiguity, accent and gender variation, and complex contextual meaning requiring background knowledge for interpretation.
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Graphical forms aid natural language interfaces
The article discusses making NL interfaces less opaque by using graphical forms and on screen drag and drop. It notes that humans use fragments over complex sentences and cites Norman and Elman as exploring learning systems for meaning, not just grammar, through neural networks.
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Don Norman
Apple
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Seabird Invasion Tied to Domoic Acid Bloom at Monterey
In August 1961 northern Monterey woke to seabird attacks that inspired Hitchcock like news. Eight people were bitten as birds swarmed roofs and seawalls. UC Santa Cruz researchers now link the event to domoic acid, a natural toxin from phytoplankton, later seen again in 1991.
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David Garrison
Canada
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Canadian geologists claim plate tectonics built continents
ACanadian team reports finding a major fault beneath northern Quebec as a remnant of a 2.7 billion year old seam where cratons formed continents. They argue volcanic isles rode a conveyor belt of plate tectonics and smashed together to create large landmasses.
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New Town Times News Service
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China
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Rasalgethi and Rasalhague: Bright Stars in Hercules
The article notes Rasalgethi, alpha Hercules, a fourth magnitude red supergiant that varies in brightness about a magnitude roughly every hundred days and forms a binary system with a blue green companion. The companion is about fifth magnitude, its orbit under two days, and the primary loses material forming a surrounding cloud. The text mentions Rasalhague in Ophiuchus as a brighter nearby star.
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Lunar Prospector to mark NASA return to the Moon
A low cost Lunar Prospector spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale is funded by a 59 million NASA contract to launch by June 1997. The crewless probe will orbit the Moon 60 miles above its surface to map gravity and magnetic fields and hunt for water and other resources, guiding future cheap solar system exploration.
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