Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning by Henk Pelk

9.12.2023

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Bias in Natural Language Processing NLP: A Dangerous But Fixable Problem by Jerry Wei

These are usually words that end up having the maximum frequency if you do a simple term or word frequency in a corpus. Typically, these can be articles, conjunctions, prepositions and so on. Lemmatization is very similar to stemming, where we remove word affixes to get to the base form of a word.

• IBM has launched a new open-source toolkit, PrimeQA, to spur progress in multilingual question-answering systems to make it easier for anyone to quickly find information on the web.
• The nature of this series will be a mix of theoretical concepts but with a focus on hands-on techniques and strategies covering a wide variety of NLP problems.
• Some of the major areas that we will be covering in this series of articles include the following.
• It is primarily concerned with designing and building applications and systems that enable interaction between machines and natural languages that have been evolved for use by humans.
• Let’s use this now to get the sentiment polarity and labels for each news article and aggregate the summary statistics per news category.
• This is why researchers allocate significant resources towards curating datasets.

Speech-to-Text or speech recognition is converting audio, either live or recorded, into a text document. This can be

done by concatenating words from an existing transcript to represent what was said in the recording; with this

technique, speaker tags are also required for accuracy and precision. Till the year 1980, natural language processing systems were based on complex sets of hand-written rules. After 1980, NLP introduced machine learning algorithms for language processing. Government agencies are bombarded with text-based data, including digital and paper documents. Machine learning requires A LOT of data to function to its outer limits – billions of pieces of training data.

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There are now many different software applications and online services that offer NLP capabilities. Moreover, with the growing popularity of large language models like GPT3, it is becoming increasingly easier for developers to build advanced NLP applications. This guide will introduce you to the basics of NLP and show you how it can benefit your business.

However, despite best efforts, it is nearly impossible to collect perfectly clean data, especially at the scale demanded by deep learning. Neural machine translation, based on then-newly-invented sequence-to-sequence transformations, made obsolete the intermediate steps, such as word alignment, previously necessary for statistical machine translation. NLP is growing increasingly sophisticated, yet much work remains to be done. Current systems are prone to bias and incoherence, and occasionally behave erratically. Despite the challenges, machine learning engineers have many opportunities to apply NLP in ways that are ever more central to a functioning society.

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Our chunking model gets an accuracy of around 90% which is quite good! Let’s now leverage this model to shallow parse and chunk our sample news article headline which we used earlier, “US unveils world’s most powerful supercomputer, beats China”. We will be looking at all of these techniques in subsequent sections.

On the other hand, we might not need agents that actually possess human emotions. Stephan stated that the Turing test, after all, is defined as mimicry and sociopaths—while having no emotions—can fool people into thinking they do. We should thus be able to find solutions that do not need to be embodied and do not have emotions, but understand the emotions of people and help us solve our problems. Indeed, sensor-based emotion recognition systems have continuously improved—and we have also seen improvements in textual emotion detection systems.

Modular Deep Learning

Omoju recommended to take inspiration from theories of cognitive science, such as the cognitive development theories by Piaget and Vygotsky. For instance, Felix Hill recommended to go to cognitive science conferences. Depending on the question, these can be long or short conversations. Longer conversations tend to have deeper meanings and multiple questions that the chatbot would have to consider in its extrapolation of the total picture. In general terms, NLP tasks break down language into shorter, elemental pieces, try to understand relationships between the pieces and explore how the pieces work together to create meaning.

So can you take a plan of a building  and ask questions like…Can you come up with a detailed work schedule from the BIM? Or if you  have the schedule listing different steps, can you  verify that this is the right order? If you think  about the final [textual] products, it’s hard linking what’s actually happening on the construction site. SAS analytics solutions transform data into intelligence, inspiring customers around the world to make bold new discoveries that drive progress. This is where training and regularly updating custom models can be helpful, although it oftentimes requires quite a lot of data. With spoken language, mispronunciations, different accents, stutters, etc., can be difficult for a machine to understand.

Applications of NLP

The COPD Foundation uses text analytics and sentiment analysis, NLP techniques, to turn unstructured data into valuable insights. These findings help provide health resources and emotional support for patients and caregivers. Learn more about how analytics is improving the quality of life for those living with pulmonary disease. To be sufficiently trained, an AI must typically review millions of data points. Processing all those data can take lifetimes if you’re using an insufficiently powered PC.

Examples of these issues include spelling and grammatical errors and poor language use in general. Advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities can identify spelling and grammatical errors and allow the chatbot to interpret your intended message despite the mistakes. If you have any feedback, comments or interesting insights to share about my article or data science in general, feel free to reach out to me on my LinkedIn social media channel. Looks like the most negative article is all about a recent smartphone scam in India and the most positive article is about a contest to get married in a self-driving shuttle.

Planning for NLP

As they grow and strengthen, we may have solutions to some of these challenges in the near future. There definitely seems to be more positive articles across the news categories here as compared to our previous model. However, still looks like technology has the most negative articles and world, the most positive articles similar to our previous analysis. Let’s now do a comparative analysis and see if we still get similar articles in the most positive and negative categories for world news.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 — a language model that can automatically write text — received a ton of hype this past year. Beijing Academy of AI’s WuDao 2.0 (a multi-modal AI system) and Google’s Switch Transformers are both considered more powerful models that consist of over 1.6 trillion parameters dwarfing GPT-3’s measly 175 billion parameters. Well, looks like the most negative world news article here is even more depressing than what we saw the last time! The most positive article is still the same as what we had obtained in our last model. We can see that the spread of sentiment polarity is much higher in sports and world as compared to technology where a lot of the articles seem to be having a negative polarity. Stanford’s Named Entity Recognizer is based on an implementation of linear chain Conditional Random Field (CRF) sequence models.

The literal interpretation of languages could be loose and challenging for machines to comprehend, let’s break them down into factors that make it hard and how to crack it. This evolution has pretty much led to our need to communicate with not just humans but with machines also. And the challenge lies with creating a system that reads and understands a text the way a person does, by forming a representation of the desires, emotions, goals, and everything that human forms to understand a text. NLP is one of the fast-growing research domains in AI, with applications that involve tasks including translation, summarization, text generation, and sentiment analysis. Businesses use NLP to power a growing number of applications, both internal — like detecting insurance fraud, determining customer sentiment, and optimizing aircraft maintenance — and customer-facing, like Google Translate.

NLP combines computational linguistics—rule-based modeling of human language—with statistical, machine learning, and deep learning models. Together, these technologies enable computers to process human language in the form of text or voice data and to ‘understand’ its full meaning, complete with the speaker or writer’s intent and sentiment. Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics. It is primarily concerned with giving computers the ability to support and manipulate speech. It involves processing natural language datasets, such as text corpora or speech corpora, using either rule-based or probabilistic (i.e. statistical and, most recently, neural network-based) machine learning approaches.

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