Salesforce Announces AI Breakthrough, Reducing Information Overload

Salesforce today announced the results of a research project tackling one of the most difficult natural language processing (NLP) research challenges--generating long, coherent, and meaningful text summaries. The new deep learning approach Salesforce researchers Romain Paulus, Caiming Xiong and Richard Socher experimented with, promises to help address the challenge of information overload we all suffer from today. "For a long time," says Socher, "text summarization has not made much progress." Summaries are typically created by either selecting specific words or phrases or by attempting to produce an abstract using words not found in the original. The results lack coherence, flow and readability.