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.'"

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