'I radically update my course module almost every year to keep up with the rate of change'

Interview Natural language processing, or NLP for short, is one of the key research areas of artificial intelligence, and has had a major boost in the last couple of years. After all, the written word is everywhere – be it in the form of scientific texts, news articles, wiki entries, or seemingly simply status updates on the social platform of your choice – and there's a huge interest in making sense of it all. One company especially enthusiastic about NLP is Facebook. No matter your opinion about its platform, the amount of data the Silicon Valley giant has to process every single day is simply mind boggling. And its platform comes with some NLP already built in: take its translation capabilities, for example.