How to Get into Natural Language Processing

Re:How to Get into Natural Language Processing by will_pseudonym on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:43PM (#13447206)

I'm not sure what methods they use, but the "single sentence reply suggestions" created by Google's Inbox are the highest quality natural language generation that I have come across.

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Re:How to Get into Natural Language Processing by tyingq on Saturday January 21, 2017 @09:43AM (#13450196)

I believe this is the paper that describes the approach they are using: http://www.kdd.org/kdd2016/papers/files/Paper_1069.pdf

Looks less like NLG, and more like picking existing responses from a (probably huge) corpus using ML. Hard to replicate unless you have access to the kind of data Google has.

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Re:How to Get into Natural Language Processing by will_pseudonym on Sunday January 22, 2017 @02:58AM (#13454198)

If you think about it, all natural language generation is simply picking from a list of possible words to go next. They just do that at a sentence level.

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Re:How to Get into Natural Language Processing by tyingq on Sunday January 22, 2017 @10:55AM (#13455664)

Heh. I suppose, if you have enough sentences to choose from for the various combinations of words, tenses, conjugations, prepositions, and so forth. Can't imagine there's many entities that would have that much data.

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