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Language in the Future of Computing

• Anurag Bhatnagar
• Abhishek Bhatnagar
• Michelle Mendoza

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Web Sites Reviewed

1. http://irevolution.net/2011/10/10/recordedfuture/
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
4. http://www.cs.cofc.edu/~manaris/publications/advances-in-computers-vol-47.pdf

1. http://www.parc.com/content/attachments/PARC_NaturalLanguage_backgrounder.pdf
2. http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Publications/NLP4NLP.pdf

Thesis Statement

Thesis

"Natural language processing will shape the way humans and computers interact in the future."

Research Notes

Projects Proposals

1) Natural Language Processing

• There are several smaller ideas we could work on within this large topic such as:

• Its implementation in chat-bots?
• Sentiment analysis - data mining for financial analysis, for disease or war prevention - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis
• Watson - More complicated topic, not sure what thesis we could have here? Word sense disambiguation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_sense_disambiguation More research needed.
• Part of speech tagging - Used on several websites in searching, tagging, merging threads or discussions : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part-of-speech_tagging

2) Kinect/Move interaction?

• Human computer interaction in video games?
• And other areas? http://www.primesense.com/en/the-living-room-experience
• Head-tracking? Gestures? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5nhQiL4pY More research needed.

3) Usability of Social Media Tools

• How do organizations structure their tools to promote and increase user engagement
• Psychological effects of Social Media and its pull on users