It wasn’t too long ago that talking to a computer and having it not only understand, but speak back, was confined to the realm of science fiction, like that of the shipboard computers of Star Trek.

One of the most challenging and revolutionary things artificial intelligence (AI) can do is speak, write, listen, and understand human language. Natural language processing (NLP) is a form of AI that ...

This year, all eyes will be on natural language processing (NLP). With OpenAI's GPT-4 and Meta's LLaMA out, the race for the best AI-powered NLP tech is officially on. So what hides behind the hype?

Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that while AI was better than humans at data-driven decision making tasks, it was still inferior to humans for cognitive and creative ones. But in the past ...

People have been trying to use computational methods to analyze human language for over 50 years, but it's only recently that NLP has come into its own. Natural language processing is a type of ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some parallels to LLMs.

In the first half of this course, we will explore the evolution of deep neural network language models, starting with n-gram models and proceeding through feed-forward neural networks, recurrent ...

Organizations of every size collect written texts, from documents and notes to surveys and forms. However, these rich sources of information can be overwhelming. For example, a community-oriented ...

Cancer research using electronic health records and genomic data sets requires clinical outcomes data, which may be recorded only in unstructured text by treating oncologists. Natural language ...