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Computational Linguistics

Human languages are very difficult for a mathematically based computer program to understand.

We have been at a stage where a computer can parrot written and verbal forms for a while, both parsing them into letters and creating them from letters - but what about getting the program to actually understand the semantics and meaning of human languages?

How can we produce intelligent productive speech? What are the recent advances in neuroscience telling us about this? How does early auditory processing in the brainstem contribute to speech understanding?

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