- “Human language technology’s main purpose is to allow the use of automatic systems and tools to assist humans in producing and accessing information, to improve communication between humans, and to assist humans in communicating with machines. (Ronald Cole and contributors (1996), Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technologies)”
- “Human Language Technologies are a set of technologies that make us possible to interface with machines by voice and language and that process this form of information in all the ways that we consider useful.” (Gianni Lazzari (April 2006), Human Language Technologies for Europe, work carried out by Accipio Consulting, Germany)
REFERENCES:
- Ronald Cole and contributors (1996), Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technologies, Retrieved 23 May 23:17 2009 from http://www.tc-star.org/pubblicazioni/D17_HLT_ENG.pdf
- Gianni Lazzari (April 2006), Human Language Technologies for Europe, Retrieved 23 May 23:17 2009 from http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/HLTsurvey.html