AI and Language

The student-organised ACAIS symposium in Nijmegen, held in May 2018 and themed ‘AI and language’, was buzzing with excitement this year. The video in which Google’s Assistant can be seen making a phone call to a hair salon had just been released two weeks before. In all of the talks, it was clear that it …

Named Entity Recognition (NER): Extracting a timeline from biographical texts

Texts written in natural language are generally unstructured, meaning that they are not organized in a pre-defined structure, such as a table. Rather, writers often mean to tell a story, and let their text flow freely in sentences and paragraphs. While such texts typically are more fun to read, the information they contain is not …