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Everyone from Google to Microsoft is looking for a way to a way to make computers more communative with humans. After a successful demonstration of IBM's computer named Watson beating out two of Jeopardy's most successful competitors much attention has been given to NLP. This course discusses the challenges and successes in NLP.
It is necessary to study of metadata to correlate etymology with words. Etymology is the study of finding word roots and morphology is the study of word making. Today advances in bioinformatics tools have yielded a complex study of the human genome and have made great strides in finding out mutations that can create a higher probability of cancer. We should do so because we can learn about the human race as well as expand our knowledge of words.
