Carnegie Mellon

Parsing Efficiency is crucial when building practical natural language systems. 'Ibis is especially the case for interactive systems such as natural language database access, interfaces to expert systems and interactive machine translation. Despite its importance, parsing efficiency has received little attention in the area of natural language processing. In the areas of compiler design and theoretical computer science, on the other hand, parsing algorithms 3 have been evaluated primarily in terms of the theoretical worst case analysis (e.g. lXn», and very few practical comparisons have been made. This book introduces a context-free parsing algorithm that parses natural language more efficiently than any other existing parsing algorithms in practice.

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Computers and the Internet have combined to form a new medium that redefines the creative process in today's business world. This program attempts to show IT leaders why it pays to think differently and try new initiatives. Randy Pausch, Professor and Co-Director of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., looks at issues such as virtual reality and team building in a thought-provoking manner. Pausch discusses the way computers have become ubiquitous and are showing up in all kinds of places; how the World Wide Web should be embraced as a new medium; and the way artists and engineers can combine to fuel the creative process. He also gives a demonstration of the Virtual Worlds course he teaches at Carnegie Mellon. This revised version of one of WatchIT’s most requested programs has been updated with new multimedia resources, such as Web links and white papers.

By watching this program, you will learn:
~ How the Internet needs to be thought of as a medium, like radio, television and film;
~ How to spur creativity in yourself and others – in particular, how you can put different kinds of people together to get creative teams formed;
~ Opinions and stories about customer service, and how it can be done much better in the real world.