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International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems

NLDB 2015: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems pp 153–159Cite as

How to Talk to a Cognitive Computer

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Cognitive Computing is becoming a catchphrase in the technology world, with the promise of new smart services offered by industry giants like IBM and Google. We observe that the latest technologies do not represent a major departure from previous achievements in Artificial Intelligence. An example from language processing demonstrates that present day Cognitive Computing still struggles with long-standing issues in AI. We conclude that in the absence of fundamental breakthroughs, it might be more fruitful to follow Licklider’s lead and adopt Symbiotic Computing as a metaphor for designing software programs that enhance human cognitive performance.

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Notes

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    https://www.gartner.com/doc/2802717/hype-cycle-smart-machines-.

  2. 2.

    http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/.

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    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-ibms-watson-usher-in-cognitive- computing/.

  4. 4.

    http://deeplearning.net.

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    http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/#fbid=GZ_iDrBgajZ.

  6. 6.

    http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/neural-networks/History/history2.html.

  7. 7.

    http://mit150.mit.edu/symposia/brains-minds-machines.

  8. 8.

    http://norvig.com/chomsky.html.

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    http://lexitags.org.

  10. 10.

    http://mobilesemantics.dyndns.org:3000.

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    Csaba Veres

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  2. Universität Passau, Passau, Germany

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Veres, C. (2015). How to Talk to a Cognitive Computer. In: Biemann, C., Handschuh, S., Freitas, A., Meziane, F., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9103. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19581-0_13

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