I recently submitted my Master's thesis on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning which hopefully will earn me my Master's in Computer Science with Speech and Language Processing from the University of Sheffield, UK.
One and a half years back I decided to pursue a research career in Computational Linguistic which is an emerging interdisciplinary sub-field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) because I believe that the key in the rise of the machine is its ability to understand human natural language.
A year back, after I landed in Manchester Airport I was greeted by the University ambassador who was going to accompany me to the University in a taxi arranged by the University. Once we left the airport for the University, the university ambassador, who was a white British male (most probably Christian), asked the taxi driver, a brown Muslim male, about his country of origin. The taxi driver replied that he is from Pakistan. They started discussing different kinds of stuff, Brexit, religions, politics, etc.. I, being an introvert, was quietly listening to them. (This is the benefit of being an introvert, you listen more, speak less (if not at all), and process the conversation the most). The topic of the discussion shifted to the rise in racism in the UK. This is when the taxi driver spoke the wisest words. He said that he believes that people hate each other because they don't understand each other which is primarily because of the lack of conversation due to their inability in understanding each other's language. This is when I realized that Computational Linguistic, through Machine Translation (MT), has an important role to play in the world peace.
It is really important for us to come out of our shell, travel the world, meet new people, understand their way of life. This way, our hatred for others will lessen, and we will contribute to the world peace. And of course, Computational Linguistic has to and will play an important part in this.
~Caritas, Lux, et Veritas;
The Unknown Poet.
One and a half years back I decided to pursue a research career in Computational Linguistic which is an emerging interdisciplinary sub-field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) because I believe that the key in the rise of the machine is its ability to understand human natural language.
A year back, after I landed in Manchester Airport I was greeted by the University ambassador who was going to accompany me to the University in a taxi arranged by the University. Once we left the airport for the University, the university ambassador, who was a white British male (most probably Christian), asked the taxi driver, a brown Muslim male, about his country of origin. The taxi driver replied that he is from Pakistan. They started discussing different kinds of stuff, Brexit, religions, politics, etc.. I, being an introvert, was quietly listening to them. (This is the benefit of being an introvert, you listen more, speak less (if not at all), and process the conversation the most). The topic of the discussion shifted to the rise in racism in the UK. This is when the taxi driver spoke the wisest words. He said that he believes that people hate each other because they don't understand each other which is primarily because of the lack of conversation due to their inability in understanding each other's language. This is when I realized that Computational Linguistic, through Machine Translation (MT), has an important role to play in the world peace.
It is really important for us to come out of our shell, travel the world, meet new people, understand their way of life. This way, our hatred for others will lessen, and we will contribute to the world peace. And of course, Computational Linguistic has to and will play an important part in this.
~Caritas, Lux, et Veritas;
The Unknown Poet.
