Prof. Spaccapietra's Lecture of Honor - "Mitiged Determination of non-Significance"
Event details
| Date | 22.04.2010 |
| Hour | 17:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Stefano Spaccapietra |
| Location |
Auditorium CM3
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| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
Abstract
Not surprisingly, an information retrieval company is becoming one of the major players in IT services. Indeed, we spend much of our time looking for information, knowing that it is hidden somewhere, spread out into many different fragments, within the massive amount of web pages that people keep posting on the Web. It would help to be able to delegate the task of finding information to specialized services (agents in AI terminology). Yet we would like to be sure that these agents understand what we are looking for and similarly understand what the available information is and means. Some fundamental questions about intercommunication suddenly become major issues. How can we be sure that we do understand the words that other people use in talking to us? Beyond words and sentences, how can we be sure that we correctly grasp which thoughts and knowledge led other persons/agents to express themselves using these sentences? How can we be aware of and accommodate cultural differences, combined with other influences due to present circumstances in a specific place and at a specific time? Can we understand all these communication facets and knowledge facets without having to resort to a framework that knows everything about everybody and every subject? In short, grasping the semantics of things is the challenge. We will discuss some basic principles on which to build a solution.
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- General public
- Free
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- D. Fowler