TTC #201 How Natural Language Processing Technologies Benefit Our World, Voula Giouli

Voula Giouli is a research associate and has been working at ILSP / R.C. "Athena" since 1998 conducting basic and applied research in Computational Linguistics, the focus being on the analysis and modeling of natural language and the development of electronic language resources. We talk about how computational linguistics and natural language processing applications can benefit humans and how we can use the information & audio data derived from these. As Voula Giouli mentions, the challenge is to spot the unstructured information in various channels and mediums and serve this to the right user at the right time. She talks about her recent work on the development of an M2M conceptual dictionary of modern greek. She also shares insights and various commercial applications that could benefit from NLP technologies like consumer ratings and recommendations, authoring autocomplete aid while writing and others. Interviewed by Venetia Kyritsi for Tech Talks Central.