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Teaching machines to understand – and summarize – text

  • Written by Karuna Pande Joshi, Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
imageCan artificial intelligence help us stop drowning in paperwork?Jiw Ingka/shutterstock.com

We humans are swamped with text. It’s not just news and other timely information: Regular people are drowning in legal documents. The problem is so bad we mostly ignore it. Every time a person uses a store’s loyalty rewards card or connects to an...

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