英语教学术语选摘(七十八)

【artificial intelligence】(AI)is concerned with programming computers to perform tasks including text interpretation which are usually considered to need human intelligence(Mc Tear,1987).Whether successful performance would actually imply intelligence has been hotly debated(Born,1987).Although limited in success,AI has yielded important insights into the relation between world knowledge and language knowledge in discourse(Cook,1994:59 122).Bibliography Born,R.(ed.)(1987).Artificial Intelligence:The case against.Beckenham:Croom Helm.Cook,G.(1994).Discourse and Literature.Oxford:Oxford University Press.Mc Tear,M.(1987).The Articulate Computer.Oxford:Blackwell.(An Excerpt from Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics:A Handbook for Language Teaching,Keith Johnson&Helen Johnson,p.14)