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Natural Language Processing
Tuesday Readings
Tracking, Rendering, Display
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Potpourri
100
Smallest sound unit in language
What are Phonemes?
100

The predecessor of IBM Watson, this computer program was big into Chess

What is Deep Blue?
100
One advantage of magnetic Trackers
What is no obstruction? (or orientation and translation in one)
100
This classic demo is used to show how realistic VR can be
What is the pit/pit demo?
100
Smallest unit of meaning in language 
Morphemes
200
Rules or guidelines that govern most forms of communication 
Pragmatics
200

This is the most frequent Lexical Answer Type for Jeopardy questions

What is "he"?
200
One disadvantage of Optical Sensing
What are room restrictions? (or interference)
200
This is the main disadvantage of increasing the complexity of avatars
What is lag/taking more time to render?
200
True or False:

Schank argues that Watson's artificial intelligence that wins jeopardy against top human players is NOT an example of true human-like intelligence

True
300
Author who wrote about the "honeymoon ending" for the bottom-up approach in AI
Jaron Lanier
300

This technique used by Watson involves that use of lightweight scoring algorithms on a larger set of initial candidates to prune them down to a smaller set of candidates 

What is Soft Filtering?
300
One advantage and on disadvantage of Inertial Trackers
Advantage: What is no need for transmission source? (or highly accurate, low latency)

Disadvantage: What are huge hunks of metal distort? (or drifting during really slow movements)

300
This kind of VR headset is wireless and has all features packaged into a single unit
What is a standalone headset?
300
This chess player lost to IBM's Deep Blue

Who is Garry Kasparov?

400
This term helps drawing inferences and filling in gaps in sentences 
Conceptual Dependency 
400
Schank argues that this human faculty is "inextricably linked" with language
What is memory?
400

That measure of variability which merely expresses the number of options available within a variable or space

What is degree of freedom?
400
This VR headset feature ensures your safety in the physical world
What is collision detection?
400
The three types of rotation
What are yaw, tilt, and roll?
500
Search for rational semantic representation guided by meaningful rules
Top-Down approach
500
A QA technique used as a baseline in the early stages of developing Watson, PIQUANT stands for this
What is Practical Intelligence Question Answering Technology?
500

Computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of an agent's location within it

What is Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)

500
"A date with a smiling hippie girl ... the simulation starts as a picnic in a park, the sharing of a soda pop, and moves on to a ride in an amusement park." Which prominent VR scholar describes this as his favorite Sensorama experience?
Who is Jaron Lanier?
500

This individual played alongside Ken Jennings against IBM Watson on Jeopardy

Who is Brad Rutter?