When we talk to our virtual assistants such as Siri or Alexa, there are two parts to the exchange. First, they must be able to understand the inquiry formulated in a human voice and often in less than perfect language. Second, they must be able to formulate a coherent response that incorporates the requested information. Both of these tasks are based on the area of research that is known as computational linguistics.
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In this field, specialists in artificial intelligence, big data and other branches of engineering work closely with philologists and translators. They provide specific skills that allow complex and difficult to reproduce aspects of language in programming code to be handled and transmitted to machines, such as understanding an emotion or context. That is, what allows us to identify, for example, the difference between a compliment and an offense, between a joke and a reproach.
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