Mam's superb presentation......

Today was a very busy friday..... as we had classes right from the morning.... MFCS class in the first session..... then the DSAL class ....... and then somebody came up saying there was to be a TCOM session too..... I was so tired and so unwiling that I just did not want the TCOM session to happen that day at all...... Then some students opted to go and ask the admin staff if the TCOM session could be postponed to some other day.... probably the very next day if possible..... and lo......... Uma ma'm came up and declared that it was meant for the staff only.... however any student if interested could very well attend the presentation and that Sawani Ma'm was to the one who was to give the presentation... and the topic of her presentation was "Rhetoric Structure Theory"..... that is the relation among various sentences of a whole paragraph, in fact, a whole lot of text.....
Now, this was something irresistible at all..... firstly because Sawani Ma'm was to give away the presentation... and secondly it was related to the "Artificial Intelligence". The session was concerned with "Natural Language Processing" through computers....
A lot of this I could infer from the presentation at all..... that there can be sentences or even parts of sentence.... and they may be related to each other in different forms depending upon the intent of the author.... what all the author wants to convey....
A single piece of text could be broken down and a binary tree could be constructed as according to importance and precedence of its parts...
Then I came to know about what is called..... nucleus and the satellite. nucleus is the central idea or the theme that the author want to emphasise upon...... while satelite is that part of the sentence or a different sentence at all... which may be present to support that central idea....
And what could be the cause behind all such things that Ma'm said was to help computers be able to translate not only sentences from one language to the other, but also to translate the ideas of the author into the target language.....
It was really.... an informative session..... and I think it's quite a loss for those who didn't attend the session..... They could have learnt so much out of it that it can never be accomodated in this blog.....