WALID SABA

Back to the Drawing Board: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Agai…

The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence is a webcast with Dr. Naghi Prasad and Dr. Walid Saba of Astound.a…

A short presentation on the difference between NLP and NLU and why the Data-Driven approach, while useful for…

A long write-up that explains why the data-driven (and machine learning) approach to NLU is a futile effort a…

This is a talk given at SRI International on Ontological vs Logical Concepts and Quantitative/Data-Driven NLU

This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural la…

Computer science has always been partly a science and partly an engineering discipline, so while many can do …

In practice, it seems that avoiding the knowledge acquisition bottleneck has not resulted in any net gain.

AI is not about advances in computing, processing power, or data analysis. AI is about the development of thi…

In June 2016 voters in the UK, once the largest and most powerful colonial power on earth, voted for a Brexit…

Decades of voting for the corporate-controlled neoliberal elite has led to perpetual wars, the complete disin…

A lot of technologies claim to use semantic search, text analysis, and sentiment analysis. But this is an abu…