We are starting #ISE2025 lecture 02 with a (very) brief history of #NLP pointing out only some selected highlights. Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure was laying the foundations of today's NLP by describing languages as “systems.” He argued that meaning is created inside language, in the relations and differences between its parts.

Course in general linguistics. https://ia600204.us.archive.org/0/items/SaussureFerdinandDeCourseInGeneralLinguistics1959/Saussure_Ferdinand_de_Course_in_General_Linguistics_1959.pdf

#linguistics #historyofscience @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @enorouzi @tabea @sourisnumerique @KIT_Karlsruhe #AIFB

Hi everybody #introduction, this is FIZ ISE (Information Service Engineering) research group at #FIZKarlsruhe and #AIFB/KIT, switching from the birdcage to this lovely new environment. We will be tooting about our latest research in #semanticweb #knowledgegraph #deeplearning #knowledgeextraction #researchdatamanagement #representationlearning #semanticsearch #exploratorysearch and many more.

Application areas: #culturalheritage #digitalhumanities #materialsscience
#datascience #mathematics #ai