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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
