Where NLP is heading - KDnuggets

As both the written and spoken-language corpora available to us explode in ubiquity, natural language processing (NLP) has become an invaluable tool to researchers, organizations, and even hobbyists. It lets us summarize documents, analyze sentiment, categorize content, translate languages – and one day potentially even converse at a human level. Like any AI and ML discipline, NLP is a fast-moving discipline undergoing rapid change as both practitioners and researchers dive into the prospects it presents. While the NLP landscape is rapidly changing, here are some of the trends and opportunities I see on the horizon. "Prompting" is a technique that involves adding a piece of text to your input examples to encourage a language model to perform a task you're interested in.