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Predicting sounds helps the brain to recognise words

22 May 2012

New research on listening shows how the human brain uses its own form of predictive text. In a recent study published in the journal Current Biology , three Cambridge researchers at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit , Pierre Gagnepain, Rik Henson and Matt Davis, show that the brain is constantly using knowledge of...

Breaking new ground in Natural Language Processing

3 May 2012

An interdisciplinary research collaboration on computational semantics by the computer science departments of Cambridge, Oxford, Sussex, York and Edinburgh has just been awarded a three-year EPSRC grant of c. £1.5M from October 2012. The research will exploit the strengths of two different computational modelling...

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