Category: Article
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 […]
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++ 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 […]
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 […]