Text segmentationText segmentation is the process of dividing written text into meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics. The term applies both to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to artificial processes implemented in computers, which are the subject of natural language processing. The problem is non-trivial, because while some written languages have explicit word boundary markers, such as the word spaces of written English and the distinctive initial, medial and final letter shapes of Arabic, such signals are sometimes ambiguous and not present in all written languages.
Interactions homme-machinethumb|Personne plongée dans la réalité virtuelle grâce à un visiocasque et un gant électronique. thumb|L'interface homme-machine d'un des ordinateurs de bord des missions Apollo. L'interaction Homme-machine (ou interaction humain-machine), appelée IHM, s’intéresse à la conception et au développement de systèmes interactifs en prenant en compte ses impacts sociétaux et éthiques. Les humains interagissent avec les ordinateurs qui les entourent et cette interaction nécessite des interfaces qui facilitent la communication entre l'humain et la machine.
Désambiguïsation lexicaleLa désambiguïsation lexicale ou désambigüisation lexicale est la détermination du sens d'un mot dans une phrase lorsque ce mot peut avoir plusieurs sens possibles. Dans la linguistique informatique, la désambiguïsation lexicale est un problème non résolu dans le traitement des langues naturelles et de l'ontologie informatique. La résolution de ce problème permettrait des avancées importantes dans d'autres champs de la linguistique informatique comme l'analyse du discours, l'amélioration de la pertinence des résultats des moteurs de recherche, la résolution des anaphores, la cohérence, l'inférence, etc.
Apprentissage de représentationsEn apprentissage automatique, l'apprentissage des caractéristiques ou apprentissage des représentations est un ensemble de techniques qui permet à un système de découvrir automatiquement les représentations nécessaires à la détection ou à la classification des caractéristiques à partir de données brutes. Cela remplace l'ingénierie manuelle des fonctionnalités et permet à une machine d'apprendre les fonctionnalités et de les utiliser pour effectuer une tâche spécifique.
Stimulus modalityStimulus modality, also called sensory modality, is one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus. For example, the temperature modality is registered after heat or cold stimulate a receptor. Some sensory modalities include: light, sound, temperature, taste, pressure, and smell. The type and location of the sensory receptor activated by the stimulus plays the primary role in coding the sensation. All sensory modalities work together to heighten stimuli sensation when necessary.
Modality (human–computer interaction)In the context of human–computer interaction, a modality is the classification of a single independent channel of input/output between a computer and a human. Such channels may differ based on sensory nature (e.g., visual vs. auditory), or other significant differences in processing (e.g., text vs. image). A system is designated unimodal if it has only one modality implemented, and multimodal if it has more than one. When multiple modalities are available for some tasks or aspects of a task, the system is said to have overlapping modalities.
Multisensory integrationMultisensory integration, also known as multimodal integration, is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities (such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion, and taste) may be integrated by the nervous system. A coherent representation of objects combining modalities enables animals to have meaningful perceptual experiences. Indeed, multisensory integration is central to adaptive behavior because it allows animals to perceive a world of coherent perceptual entities.
SemanticsSemantics () is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy, linguistics and computer science. In English, the study of meaning in language has been known by many names that involve the Ancient Greek word σῆμα (sema, "sign, mark, token"). In 1690, a Greek rendering of the term semiotics, the interpretation of signs and symbols, finds an early allusion in John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: The third Branch may be called σημειωτική [simeiotikí, "semiotics"], or the Doctrine of Signs, the most usual whereof being words, it is aptly enough termed also λογικὴ, Logick.
Analyse sémantique latente probabilisteL’analyse sémantique latente probabiliste (de l'anglais, Probabilistic latent semantic analysis : PLSA), aussi appelée indexation sémantique latente probabiliste (PLSI), est une méthode de traitement automatique des langues inspirée de l'analyse sémantique latente. Elle améliore cette dernière en incluant un modèle statistique particulier. La PLSA possède des applications dans le filtrage et la recherche d'information, le traitement des langues naturelles, l'apprentissage automatique et les domaines associés.
Semantic lexiconA semantic lexicon is a digital dictionary of words labeled with semantic classes so associations can be drawn between words that have not previously been encountered. Semantic lexicons are built upon semantic networks, which represent the semantic relations between words. The difference between a semantic lexicon and a semantic network is that a semantic lexicon has definitions for each word, or a "gloss". Semantic lexicons are made up of lexical entries. These entries are not orthographic, but semantic, eliminating issues of homonymy and polysemy.