Natural Language Processing as Part of Daily Life

ByTomas Zezula

You are chatting on WhatsApp and exchanging hilarious GIFs here and there. Have you noticed that those matching the subject of your recent conversation helpfully line up first? Have you ever wondered why? If humans are able to reconstruct thoughts from words, could computers do this as well? Source: Towards Data Science The gist of…

From Linguistics to Statistics and AI

ByTomas Zezula

1980s marked a shift towards probabilistic statistical models. Moore’s law allowed for complex computations at scale. Major industry players (IBM etc.) successfully adopted large statistical models. A steady increase of computational power helped the evolution of machine learning algorithms. The new era marked the dominance of statistical models and saw major improvements in text and…