What kind of text analysis related works can be done on rare book corpus like mythology? Metaphor analytics is a hot topic.  Gerard Steen’s (@GerardSteen) Metaphor Lab Amsterdam seems to be a…

What topics should I know in NLP? In addition to the following list, the current Wikipedia Category:Tasks of natural language processing includes two Subcategories: Category:Natural language parsing Category:Word-sense disambiguation A Anaphora (linguistics)…

Is an offline computing environment suitable for advanced artificial intelligence? It seems to me this question has been asked backwards.  Rather, is an online, or networked, AI more suitable for AGI than…

What is automated journalism, and what companies other than Narrative Science are working on it? What has been dubbed “robojournalism” is a specialization of the broader field of Natural language generation.  Wikipedia…

What are the open problems in designing intelligent conversational agents? Integration Modularity Rapid Application Development Middleware Dialog State Tracking* High-quality, low-cost avatar system APIs End-to-end White-label products *See also my Quora answers…

What is the difference between a dialog state tracker and an SLU (spoken language understanding) system? A “dialog state tracker” is like a hypothetical device, or more accurately a component, representing an…

I wanted to start a research project by myself in CS (AI mostly) with potential to become a master’s degree or PhD thesis. What are some tips on how to begin and…

What are good research projects in artificial intelligence for a PhD thesis? I see great need of an exhaustive survey of extant virtual avatars, including underlying virtual avatar technologies, with a focus…

Can NLP be used to make text able to be read faster by humans? I use TTS (speech synthesis) myself.  Whenever I get tired of reading, I just switch to listening.  “Read…