Language, Vision and Pattern Recognition

Fields concerned with getting machines to interpret human language, images and other raw signals. It covers the analysis and generation of natural language text and speech, the extraction of meaning from images and video, and the classification of patterns in data of any kind. A field belongs here when it is defined by the kind of input it interprets. It excludes the learning methods those fields rely on, which are grouped under machine learning, and the creation of images, which belongs to the graphics group.