Overview Day
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Search for HAL 9000 on YouTube to look at some clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Check out the CoSy webpage, which is the project that works on the mobile robot we saw a couple of videos of in class.
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Learn everything you ever wanted to know about leet and pwn.
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Create cool word clouds with Wordle
Text and speech encoding
Writing Systems
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Browse the world of writing systems at Omniglot.
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Read about the Tengwar writing system Tolkein devised for languages of Middle Earth.
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Check out the Hanzi Smatter blog to see why you should know your Chinese before getting tattoos with Chinese characters.
Speech
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Text-to-speech systems: IBM and AT&T
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Document classification and spam filtering
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Scientific American: Stopping Spam, by Joshua Goodman, David Heckerman and Robert Rounthwaite.
Question Answering
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Edinburgh's QuALiM question answering system (uses Wikipedia).
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ISI's Textmap System. In particular, check out the question representation after you ask a question.
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Dialog Systems
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The WITAS project: multi-modal conversational interfaces (including autonomous (simulated) helicopter).
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Writer's aids
Forensic Linguistics
Cryptography
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Wikipedia: The Rosetta Stone, which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Machine Translation
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Have a Translation Party: put an English phrase in and then it gets translated back-and-forth between English and Japanese until it reaches equilibrium.
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Watch a video of a story which was
written in English, translated to French, then to German, then back to
French, then back to English: A Wicked Deception.
World Knowledge
Social Context
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The Suicide Machine systematically removes you from the social network of your choice.
Random cool stuff
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Try using Google Sets to expand on a set of related words.
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Learn more about how computers are being used to read lips for a variety of applications.
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Check out how rise and fall in the news media (mainstream press and blogs) over time with MemeTracker.
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Crowdsourcing example: Phrase Detectives is a game in which the user annotates corpora while playing, the project description can be found here
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