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- Title
Anniversary article: Then and now: 25 years of progress in natural language engineering.
- Authors
Tait, John; Wilks, Yorick
- Abstract
The paper reviews the state of the art of natural language engineering (NLE) around 1995, when this journal first appeared, and makes a critical comparison with the current state of the art in 2018, as we prepare the 25th Volume. Specifically the then state of the art in parsing, information extraction, chatbots, and dialogue systems, speech processing and machine translation are briefly reviewed. The emergence in the 1980s and 1990s of machine learning (ML) and statistical methods (SM) is noted. Important trends and areas of progress in the subsequent years are identified. In particular, the move to the use of n-grams or skip grams and/or chunking with part of speech tagging and away from whole sentence parsing is noted, as is the increasing dominance of SM and ML. Some outstanding issues which merit further research are briefly pointed out, including metaphor processing and the ethical implications of NLE.
- Subjects
NATURAL languages; CHATBOTS; DATA mining; MACHINE learning; CRITICAL currents; PARTS of speech
- Publication
Natural Language Engineering, 2019, Vol 25, Issue 3, p405
- ISSN
1351-3249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1351324919000081