Timo Honkela

Language, interpretation and technology:
in search of a wise computer

An interview of professor Timo Honkela by Eeva Pitkälä. Published in Polysteekki, Bulletin of Helsinki University of Technology, 3/2004, pp. 11-14.

"While searching for a theory to describe systems that are able to learn, information technologists challenge language professionals in the dimensions and meanings of language from a completely new perspective.

Traditionally, knowledge has been thought of as a set of rules and structures based on traditional logic, says Timo Honkela, Professor of Information Technology at HUT. 'I want to define things differently. Our linguistic interpretation is always relative: it is personal and dependent on the situation. It is the diversity of the world and the non-linearity of language where we actually want to start.'"

Please, see the pdf file for the full interview.

You might also be interested in the illustration.


Contact information

Timo Honkela
Laboratory of Computer and Information Science
Helsinki University of Technology
P.O.Box 5400
FIN-02015 HUT



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Thursday, 23-Sep-2004 16:06:30 EEST