‘Tales by your computer’ is the title of next talk being organised by Malta Cafe Scientifique on Thursday at 7.30pm at the Music Room of St James Cavalier, Valletta. Admission is free.

In the talk, Albert Gatt will describe how Natural Language Generation computer systems work, focusing on a number of case studies, in which such systems have been used to extract ‘narratives’ that are easy for people to understand from the massive volume of everyday information available nowadays produce.

However, Dr Gatt says we still need a more profound understanding of the human narrative capacity to make such systems better. As research progresses, there is an increasing interaction between computing science, literary studies, and psychology, all of which are helping us to gain a better understanding of our capability to process information and tell stories.

Dr Gatt is a senior lecturer at the University’s Institute of Linguistics, a research fellow at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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