History of natural language processing: Difference between revisions

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In 1950, [[Alan Turing]] published his famous article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"<ref>{{Harv|Turing|1950}}</ref> which proposed what is now called the [[Turing test]] as a criterion of intelligence. This criterion depends on the ability of a computer program to impersonate a human in a real-time written conversation with a human judge, sufficiently well that the judge is unable to distinguish reliably - on the basis of the conversational content alone - between the program and a real human.

In 1957, [[Noam Chomsky]]’s [[Syntactic Structures]] revolutionized Linguistics with '[[universal grammergrammar]]', a rule based system of syntactic structures.<ref>{{cite web

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