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| artificial intelligence (AI) | The field of computer science devoted to making computers perceive, reason, and act in ways that have, until now, been reserved for human beings. |
| automatic speech recognition | Also speech recognition. The identification of spoken words and sentences by a computer, making it possible for voice input to be converted into text files. |
| digitized speech | Computerized voice output that mimics human speech. |
| expert system shells | Generic expert systems containing human interfaces and inference engines. |
| expert systems (ES) | Information systems of software programs designed to replicate the decision-making process of a human expert. |
| heuristic | A rule of thumb. |
| image analysis | The process of identifying objects and shapes in a photograph, drawing, video, or other visual image. |
| knowledge base | A database that contains both facts and a system of rules for determining and changing the relationship among those facts. |
| machine learning | Artificial intelligence techniques that make it possible for machine performance to improve based on feedback from past performance. |
| natural language | Language that people speak and write everyday. |
| neural networks (neural nets) | Distributed, parallel computing systems inspired by the structure of the human brain. |
| optical character recognition (OCR) software | Software that locates and identifies printed characters embedded in images. |
| parallel processing | Using multiple processors to divide jobs into pieces and work simultaneously on the pieces. |
| parsing program (parser) | In translation, a program that analyzes sentence structure and identifies each word according to its part of speech. Another program looks up each word in a translation dictionary and substitutes the appropriate word. |
| pattern recognition | Identifying recurring patterns in input data with the goal of understanding or categorizing that input. |
| robots | Computer-controlled machines designed to perform specific manual tasks. |
| speech recognition | The identification of spoken words and sentences by a computer, making it possible for voice input to be converted into text files. |
| speech synthesis | The use of software or hardware to allow PCs to recite anything to be typed, through with voices that sound artificial and robotic. |
| syntax | A set of rules for constructing sentences from words. Every language has a syntax. |
| synthetic speech | Speech generated by computers by converting text into phonetic sounds. |
| Turing test | A way to test machine intelligence. |
