These robots would respond to voice commands and would be able to interpret statements in natural language (e.g., everyday English) from patients requesting service.
The researchers, using an grant provided by a research group once affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency, have complied a database of hundreds of articles that it is being used to train a computer to recognize, rank and interpret statements.
Because the CACTVS script commands are high-level, their execution as interpreted statements is not a bottleneck.
There were strong differences in these evaluations, with participants much more likely to interpret statements from the candidate they opposed as contradictory.
Our goal here is to report, explore and interpret statements from GPs about their role in such follow up and to compare their statements with written comments from patients and their relatives.
Physicians' understanding of the recommendations was hampered by their lack of understanding of the evidence grading system used to support the recommendations (e.g., the meaning of "Grade A, level 1") (N = 6), its complexity (N = 4) and lack of specific information to accurately interpret statements (N = 4).
In contrast, we take the view in this paper that conflicts are often caused by statements that are inaccurate rather than completely false, suggesting to restore consistency by interpreting certain statements in a flexible way, rather than ignoring them completely.
"Interpreting their statements may not be as much a science as an art," said Changyong Choi, a North Korea scholar at Syracuse University in New York State who has made a study of official news reports from the North.
Patients did not have difficulties interpreting sincere statements, suggesting that they understood the task, were able to engage with it and could manage its demands on working memory.
As a longtime practitioner of absurd literalism – taking everything at face value, and insisting upon interpreting any statement according to the literal meaning of the words – I must protest at Clint Eastwood's new movie.
