NLP @ CU Boulder Computational Language and Education Research CLEAR University of Colorado Boulder

Organizations across verticals feel the pain from this gap and this presents huge opportunity for NLP/Search practitioners. “There is a clear pattern of hierarchy emerging in the progression of this technology. We’re getting close to AI understanding ideas at a sentence level using similar techniques from the word level and scaling them up. This opens up exciting applications for AI understanding ideas requiring paragraphs, entire documents, or even entire books. “Word vectors were a game-changer, but they still required you to express your idea in terms of one or a few keywords.

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Our research focuses on a variety of NLP applications, such as semantic search, summarisation and sentiment analysis. We are interested in both established NLP techniques and emerging methods based on Large Language Models (LLMs). Robotic process automation, optical character recognition, and natural language processing, or RPA, OCR and NLP, are some examples of newer technologies that positively affect businesses.

• ISO is the latest standard helping businesses build trust moving forward.
• It at times feels magical that Search engines know, with unbelievable accuracy, exactly what you are looking for.
• Such will also benefit marketers significantly as conversion rates will improve considerably.
• Widening gap between enterprise search platforms and general-purpose search enginesWhile search engines have evolved immensely, it is quite surprising that Enterprise Search platforms have continued to lag behind.
• This opens up exciting applications for AI understanding ideas requiring paragraphs, entire documents, or even entire books.

AI and understanding semantics — the next stage in the evolution of NLP is close

It’s an understatement that Search has come a long way – fact that people use “Google” as a verb these days, says it all. Gone are those days when Search was keyword-driven, Search results were links to other websites,  and users had to sift through a number of links before really finding what they were looking for. It at times feels magical that Search engines know, with unbelievable accuracy, exactly what you are looking for. This is the result of a heavy investment in NLP and Semantic technologies.

Our faculty are engaged in research projects ranging from language documentation and morphological analysis to semantic analysis and biomedical informatics. We are also currently working on an autonomous conversational agent in a junior high through college classroom setting. Featured below are some of the projects we are most proud of, both past and present. We provide general intelligence for technologists in the information age. We support CTOs, CIOs and other technology leaders in managing business critical issues both for today and in the future. Commoditization of data scienceAnother key development has been that the tools for predictive and prescriptive analytics have become more consumable.

Natural language processing

Natural Language Processing (NLP) applies the power of computing to the complexity and nuance of human language. At BBC R&D, we are exploring how NLP can help us better understand and serve our audiences. “As these costs decline from advancements in AI hardware, we will see ourselves getting closer to models that understand larger collections of text. This is somewhat proven by Open AI’s GPT-2 model, which shows that using the same sentence encoding model designs with a large amount of data, produces models that already understand high-level concepts across many sentences. For example, GPT-2 understands enough to write entire news articles with astonishing coherence. Our goal is automatically extracting the timeline of a disease and its treatment from patient records.

“The idea is that you can take a sentence, encode it into a sentence (or thought) vector and then find similar sentence vectors. If encoded well, your search function can find very different looking sentences that express the same idea. We can’t possibly keep track of everything that is happening day to day – in the news, in medicine, in financial markets, on social media, etc.

It’s just cool…and cutting edgeAs humans continue to push boundaries on what machines could do for them, both ability to process natural language better, and ability to sift through huge knowledge bases will be critical in creating a slingshot effect. While we have come a long way indeed, we are still able to solve only a small percentage of NLP problems through smart application of Bag of Words and POS tagging techniques. There are plenty of areas including syntactic parsing, anaphoric resolutions, text summarization where we need to evolve considerably. That’s essentially why NLP and Search continue to attract significant research dollars. Going forward, innovative platforms will be those that are able to process language better and provide friendlier interaction mechanisms beyond a keyboard. Possibilities are immense be it intelligent answering machines, machine-to-machine communications or machines that can take action on behalf of humans.

Internet itself will transform from connected pages to connected knowledge if you go by the vision of Tim Berners-Lee – the father of internet. Markets&Markets – a leading premium markets researcher anticipates NLP market to grow to $13.4 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 18.4%. Clearly, this presents solid opportunity for a software developer who is looking forward to building expertise in areas that will shape the future and will continue to command premium.

This benefits individual patients and their doctors by providing quick, accurate summaries of a patient’s history covering several years. Moreover, aggregating together timelines for large numbers of patients can also aid in analyzing the effectiveness of alternative treatments and the development of new treatments, benefitting all patients. We use state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques and apply Large Language Models to news articles, subtitle streams and speech-to-text transcripts.