In the context of natural language processing, doing "software testing" is otherwise known as doing linguistics

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titleIn the context of natural language processing, doing "software testing" is otherwise known as doing linguistics
start_date2014/06/16
schedule14h
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location_infosalle de conférences
summarySoftware testing and quality assurance for natural language processing has rarely been studied, despite the fact that natural language processing applications present unique challenges for these tasks.  Despite this lack of study, a fully-developed methodology is available, known as field methods and coming from the field of descriptive linguistics.  In this talk, I will present an application of field methods to software testing in the biomedical text mining domain and show how it can yield fine-grained insight into what an application is good at and what it is bad at.
responsiblesParoubek, Turner