A New Vocabulary to Replace “AI”
David de Hilster is on the warpath. He is tired of all the “hype” vocabulary used in “AI”. Find out how he plans to change this with simple word changes.
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The AI Con: An Atomic Truth Bomb for AI
Before you panic and spend $1995 on that “Prompt Engineering” class, read this book. It will not only save you lots of money, but it will save two of the most important things you have: your time and your sanity.
First NLP++ Textbook on Its Way
The co-authors David de Hilster, and Amnon Meyers, of the NLP++ programming language and framework are finishing up their first textbook on NLP++ entitled: “Trustworthy Rule-Based NLP with NLP++”. They are looking to have the book ready by fall 2025 in time to be used by RVCE University which is […]
First NLP++ College Workshop for College Credit a Success
Four-Day NLP++ Workshop at RVCE University Computer science students at RVCE University in Bengaluru India were given an up-close look at NLP++, the universal programming language for text and NLP, by co-authors David de Hilster and Amnon Meyers. This was the first NLP++ workshop offered for college credit. NLUGLI and […]
NLP Workshop for RVCE Coding Club
NLP++ authors David de Hilster and Amnon Meyers will be conducting a virtual workshop on NLP, NLP++, and Compilers from December 18 – 20, 2024. Sign Up For Each Session Here are the three sessions and a link to sign up. YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR EACH SESSION SEPARATELY. The […]
RV University and NLU Global Initiative Announce Cooperation
The Computer Science & Engineering Department at RV University in India has come to a long-term formal agreement with the Natural Language Understanding Global Initiative to work on rule-based NLP. Lead by Dr. G Shobha, dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. Merin Thomas, the school […]
Building an NLP++ Brazilian Address Cleaner for HPCC Systems
Live Talk Open to the Public Watch a video of the live presentation of this NLP++ analyzer for Brazilian addresses during the 2024 HPCC Systems Community Summit. It took place on Wednesday, October 8, at 9:00 am EST USA online. It was free to register and attend. Using the NLP++ […]
Regex for NLP
Regex is ubiquitous in the programming world because of its usefulness as a rule-based text parsing language. Programmers find comfort in the idea of writing explicit, modifiable rules in order to parse text. This is in contrast with black-box statistical models, which cannot be modified when things go wrong – […]
ACL 2024 in Bangkok Thailand: Revelations of Old and New
I have been in computational linguistics for more than 40 years, and this is the first time I have been to the most important conference in our field: the annual Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) Conference. As part of the registration process, I became a member for the first time […]
NLP++ and LLM
Trustworthy NLP systems must be rule and knowledge based given all statistical systems like large language models, machine learning, and neural networks are not. With the advent of large language models that can be queried about common knowledge, it is natural to use them to generate linguistic and world knowledge […]
Scalable Analysis of English Dictionary Files on HPCC Systems Big Data Platform
Congratulations to Jayanth C on presenting his paper on Scalable Analysis of English Dictionary Files on HPCC Systems Big Data Platform at a conference in Japan. Read more about it on LinkedIn. Here are links to the paper online:
NLP++: The Next Revolution in Human Language
Human language and human culture have run hand-in-hand. Thinking about what it is to be human without language is impossible. From the first utterings of speech around 70,000 years ago, to computers taking dictation and translating speech today, language is fundamental to humanity’s growth as a species. One: Writing Systems […]
1st Versus 2nd Generation NLP – CoreNLP vs NLP++
This paper compares the Stanford CoreNLP system to the NLP Development Environment that bundles NLP++ and VisualText. I also introduce the terms first- and second-generation NLP Systems. Introduction Information extraction from text has been a goal for computational linguists for several decades. In the early 1990s, DARPA sponsored a series […]
ChatGPT and the False Alarms of Singularity
I (David de Hilster) have been working in the area of practical Natural Language Processing (NLP) for almost 40 years and have seen the AI singularity being predicted at regular intervals over the past decades. Each generation seems to find something that will finally wipe out humankind. When I first […]