The scope of projects that are emerging from the Cognitive Machines group at MIT's Media Lab is fascinating and inspiring. Current projects include the Human Speechome Project, which is possibly the most complex longitudinal study of language development that's ever been undertaken: the language and behavior patterns of a single child have been recorded continuously in several hundred thousand hours of video and speech recordings.
Recently I've encountered questions about the viability of "The Semantic Web" (Web 3.0) on forums such as Internet Evolution, and a question has been raised as to how rich content without accompanying metadata can be catalogued and contextually searched on the web. In projects like, "Situated Natural Language Processing for Sports Video" I think we see the tip of the iceberg, in what Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy categorize as, "exploiting aspects of the non-linguistic context, or situation, conveyed by the accompanying video."
I highly recommend MIT's Cognitive Machines arm of the MIT Media Lab to anyone who's interested in emerging linguistic and sociological analysis, and the development of artificial intelligence technologies.
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