Signum: Estudos da Linguagem (Dec 2016)
A LINGUIST ROBOT THAT LISTEN AND TALKS: GEOLINGUISTIC, PLN AND HASH TABLES ON CONCURRENCY
Abstract
This study aims to present the conversational robot Teacher Tical in a wider dimension and with the resources of synthesis and voice commands. TICAL, which became operational as a prototype during the III International Congress of Dialectology and Sociolinguistics at the NFB in 2014, remains a proving ground for some theories that keeps each other an interdisciplinary character as Geolinguistics (CARDOSO et al., 2014a, 2014b), Natural Language Processing (SCHILDT, 1989; RICH, 1993; MANFIO; MORENO; BARBOSA, 2014a, 2014b) and Data Processing (ZIVIANI, 1999). The linguist ‘robot’, even featuring a fairly limited database and showing various typical failures of such systems and equipped with these capabilities, served largely to carry out tests on all the knowledge areas involved and proved to be functional enough to give rise to the need to give continuity to the project and research: ‘listen’, ‘talks’, performs quick searches and knows Linguistics.
