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MIT News: Robotics / artificial intelligence

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?
Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT graduate class, aimed at figuring out whether MIT could, or should, mount an entry into the $20-million Google Lunar X-Prize competition announced last fall, has arrived at the bottom line: Yes, we can (technically)!
Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contest
Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Robots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," held on Thursday, May 8, at MIT.
Meet Nexi, the Media Lab's latest robot star
Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500
A new experimental robot from the MIT Media Lab can slant its eyebrows in anger, or raise them in surprise, and show a wide assortment of facial expressions to communicate with people in human-centric terms.
Brains informing computers, and vice versa
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500
After many years, Tomaso Poggio's two parallel lines of research--one aimed at using computers to understand how the brain works, the other at improving the abilities of computers to "think"--have begun to converge.
MIT students design graduate student development program
Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500
An MIT PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science will describe a novel professional development program for graduate students and its impact at MIT at the annual meeting of the AAAS in Boston.
MIT finishes fourth in DARPA Grand Challenge
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500
MIT's automated Land Rover, packed with computers and electronic sensors, finished fourth in the DARPA Grand Challenge. The MIT vehicle, competing for the first time, was one of only six to complete the challenging 55-mile course.

Latest Issue of Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Adaptive dynamic probabilistic networks for distributed uncertainty processing
Shi, DongyuYou, Jinyuan
An engineering approach to sociable robots
Deniz, OscarHernandez, MarioLorenzo, JavierCastrillOn, Modesto
Arabic writer identification based on hybrid spectral-statistical measures
Al-Dmour, AymanZitar, Raed Abu

 

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AFGL Project: Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice - A system of public domain software for natural language processing. Includes a formalism for compact grammar description, parser generation system, transduction tool.

Annotate - Tool for semi-automatic graphic annotation of corpora. License, documentation, screenshot. Requires GCC and MySQL, in addition to registration.

ARIES Natural Language Tools - Proprietary tools for the lexical work on the Spanish language. Free demo, documentation.

Cogilex - Company offering expert services and customized tools for natural language processing. Site features demo download of the QuickTag and QuickParse utility for Windows, also online tools.
Meta Description: [ Cogilex R&D - natural languae processing. ]

Connexor Parsers - Language parsers and taggers for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish. On-line parser demos and limited documentation available.

GATE: General Architecture for Text Engineering - A computer architecture for a broad range of Natural Language Processing tasks, available under the GNU Public License. Abundant documentation, Java class library, web-based demos.
Meta Description: [ Home page of GATE, A General Architecture for Text Engineering ]

GroupLens - An experimental collaborative filtering service based on Better Bit Bureaus which is itself a collaborative venture between Paul Resnik of the Center for Coordination Science at MIT and Brad Miller and others at the University of Minnesota

KPML Access Page - Graphically based language engineering program, developed for working with large-scale grammars under the Systemic Formal Linguistics framework. Downloadable program images, documentation, resources and source code.

Morphological and Orthographic Tools for English - UNIX tools for the analysis and synthesis of text, from Sussex's John Carroll. GZIP downloads, descriptions, related publications.

Natural Language Software Registry - A directory of academic, commercial and proprietary software with specifications and licensing terms. From DFKI Saarbrücken.

OpenNLP - Collaborative organization for open source projects related to natural language processing. Lists ongoing projects and documents proposed standard Java and XML APIs.

Public Domain Language Engineering Generic Tools - Lecture by Tomaz Erjavec, including text, slides and links. From the 1996 TELRI conference.

Senga: Information Retrieval Software - Senga is a development group focused on information retrieval software. The primary purpose of the components distributed on Senga is to build a large scale internet search engine.

500 Smart Tutorial - A tutorial on the SMART IR system from Cornell. Put together by Hans Paijmans with a technical report on the implementation of an earlier version of SMART.

TextAI: Text Analysis International - Provides NLP applications based on its proprietary VisualText technology. Product and service information, online software tour, some documentation.
Meta Description: [ Text Analysis International offers the premier solution for information extraction and natural language processing. ]

404 Thistle - A Java GUI editor for editing tree diagrams (such as those employed in constraint-based grammars), existing in both applet and standalone forms. Sample trees and editors.