Yorick Wilks (1939–2023)
Autor(a) de Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing)
About the Author
Obras por Yorick Wilks
Electric Words: Dictionaries, Computers, and Meanings (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing) (1996) 13 exemplares
Machine Conversations (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) (1999) 5 exemplares
Close engagements with artificial companions : key social, psychological, ethical and design issues (2010) 5 exemplares
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?, The Illustrated Edition (2023) 5 exemplares
Associated Works
Thirty years of linguistic evolution studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (1992) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Early Years in Machine Translation: Memoirs and biographies of pioneers (Studies in the History of the Language… (2000) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Language and discourse test and protest : a Festschrift for Petr Sgall (1986) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Recent advances in natural language processing V selected papers from RANLP 2007 (2009) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Recent advances in natural language processing III selected papers from RANLP 2003 (2004) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Recent advances in natural language processing II selected papers from RANLP'97 (2000) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1939-10-27
- Data de falecimento
- 2023-04-14
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Ocupações
- computer scientist
- Organizações
- British Computer Society (Fellow, 2004)
ACM (Fellow, 2009)
European Association for Artificial Intelligence (Fellow, 1998)
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (Fellow, 1991)
Association for Computational Linguistics (Member)
Society for the Study of AI and Simulation of Behaviour (Member) (mostrar todos 9)
Cognitive Science Society (Member)
British Society for the Philosophy of Science (Member)
Aristotelean Society (Member) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lovelace Medal (2009)
Membros
Críticas
Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous… por Yorick Wilks
Surprisingly wide and thoughtful coverage of AI for such a short book. It explains the problem of knowledge representation better than any other books I read before. Made me think and understand these things better.
Computerized translation of natural languages is a fascinating topic, and Wilks is a veteran expert and participant in the area. It is a shame that the book makes for pretty hard reading, caused by not-so-good writing compounded with very inadequate copy editing. There is too much recycling of dated writings. Wilks gives his opinions on many facets of the subject, including the limitations and (grudgingly conceded) successes of the relatively newfangled statistical approach to automatic translation.… (mais)
Editor Yorick Wilks is a long-time big wheel in computational linguistics.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 8
- Membros
- 58
- Popularidade
- #284,346
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 25