"You shall know a word by the company it keeps," linguist John Firth once said. To get AI to understand language, engineers write programs by applying distributional semantics, count vectors, and recurrent neural networks. Scholars view an engaging video that describes these processes as part of natural language processing.

Concepts

artificial intelligence, written language, search engines, semantics, technology resources

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite a linguistics professor or an English teacher to give a presentation
  

Classroom Considerations

• This is the seventh installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series
• Pupils should have knowledge of unsupervised learning
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Thorough explanations make the concept clear
• Graphics aid in understanding
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.9-10.2 SL.11-12.2