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Date & Time:
13:00:00 - 14:00:00,
Wednesday 15 May, 2013
13:00:00 - 14:00:00,
Wednesday 15 May, 2013
About
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Speakers
- Professor Yorick Wilks
- Name: Professor Yorick Wilks
- Affiliation: Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Sheffield
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- URL: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=31
- Bio: Yorick Wilks is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield. He received his MA and PhD (1968) from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Universities. His interests are artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief, especially as applied to the future of the Internet: the Semantic Web and the possibility of Companion-like interfaces. His recent books include: Natural language Processing and the Semantic Web (with Christopher Brewster, Now Books, 2009), Machine Translation – how far can it go (Springer, 2009), Artificial Believers (Erlbaum 1991), Electric Words (MIT, 1996) and Machine Conversations (Kluwer, 2001), and a new edited volume in 2009 from John Benjamins is: ‘Artificial Companions in Society: scientific, economic, psychological and philosophical perspectives’.