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WALID SABA

  • Principal AI Scientist and Contributor, Freelance
Menlo Park
As seen in: Hubspot Blog, Communications of the ACM, InfoWorld, Towards Data Science, CounterPunch
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Walid Saba: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Again)

Walid Saba: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Again)

youtube.com — Back to the Drawing Board: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Again) Talk given on November 2nd, 2017, at SRI International in Menlo Park, CA.
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The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence

The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence

youtube.com — The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence is a webcast with Dr. Naghi Prasad and Dr. Walid Saba of Astound.ai that introduces 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence and the technical challenges involved in achieving each level.
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The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding

The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding

slideshare.net — A short presentation on the difference between NLP and NLU and why the Data-Driven approach, while useful for some NLP tasks, is irrelevant to NLU.
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Deep misconceptions and the myth of data driven NLU

Deep misconceptions and the myth of data driven NLU

slideshare.net — A long write-up that explains why the data-driven (and machine learning) approach to NLU is a futile effort and how to go forward again.
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD - The Myth of Data-Driven NLU and How to go Forward (Again)

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD - The Myth of Data-Driven NLU and How to go Forward (Again)

slideshare.net — This is a talk given at SRI International on Ontological vs Logical Concepts and Quantitative/Data-Driven NLU
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NLU Is Not NLP++

NLU Is Not NLP++

Communications of the ACM — This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural language understanding to appreciate the difference between the two, and to set some standards in the public media that seem now to be seriously inappropriate.
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Let's Not Forget the 'Science' in 'Computer Science'

Let's Not Forget the 'Science' in 'Computer Science'

Communications of the ACM — Computer science has always been partly a science and partly an engineering discipline, so while many can do both; some of us should surely keep working on the science.
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Did We Just Replace the 'Knowledge Bottleneck' With a 'Data Bottleneck'?

Did We Just Replace the 'Knowledge Bottleneck' With a 'Data Bottleneck'?

Communications of the ACM — In practice, it seems that avoiding the knowledge acquisition bottleneck has not resulted in any net gain.
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artificial intelligence, machine learning and the AI Winter

artificial intelligence, machine learning and the AI Winter

InfoWorld — AI is not about advances in computing, processing power, or data analysis. AI is about the development of thinking machines, and we are still very far from developing 'thinking' machines. Those of us the lived the AI Winter of the 1980's are concerned that the over hyping of the current state-of-the-art might cause another (and longer) AI Winter.
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No Walls in the Global Village

No Walls in the Global Village

CounterPunch — In June 2016 voters in the UK, once the largest and most powerful colonial power on earth, voted for a Brexit - for Britain's exit from the European Union (EU). Media pundits proclaimed the 'yes' vote as a vote fuelled by far-right xenophobia - supposedly, the statistics showed that the 'yes' vote
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Progressives Beware: Why a Vote for Neoliberals is a Vote for the Fascists and the Far Right

Progressives Beware: Why a Vote for Neoliberals is a Vote for the Fascists and the Far Right

CounterPunch — Decades of voting for the corporate-controlled neoliberal elite has led to perpetual wars, the complete disintegration of several nations, resulting in millions of dead and millions of refugees on a scale not seen since WWII, to Al Qaeda-turned ISIS, to a situation on the brink of a catastrophic war between NATO and Ru
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Text Analytics and Semantic Technology - Myth vs. Reality

Text Analytics and Semantic Technology - Myth vs. Reality

blog.hubspot.com — A lot of technologies claim to use semantic search, text analysis, and sentiment analysis. But this is an abuse of terms. Walid Saba, Ph.D. walks us through the implications of actual semantic search.
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