Recent improvements in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) and increased mainstream adoption have led to researchers frequently discussing the "democratization" of artificial intelligence. In this paper, we seek to clarify how democratization is understood in NLP and ML publications, through large-scale mixed-methods analyses of papers using the keyword "democra*" published in NLP and adjacent venues. We find that democratization is most frequently used to convey (ease of) access to or use of technologies, without meaningfully engaging with theories of democratization, while research using other invocations of "democra*" tends to be grounded in theories of deliberation and debate. Based on our findings, we call for researchers to enrich their use of the term democratization with appropriate theory, towards democratic technologies beyond superficial access.

In this paper, we classify scientific articles in the domain of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), as core subfields of artificial intelligence (AI), into whether (i) they extend the current state-of-the-art by the introduction of novel techniques which beat existing models or whether (ii) they mainly criticize the existing state-of-the-art, i.e. that it is deficient with respect to some property (e.g. wrong evaluation, wrong datasets, misleading task specification). We refer to contributions under (i) as having a 'positive stance' and contributions under (ii) as having a 'negative stance' (to related work). We annotate over 1.5 k papers from NLP and ML to train a SciBERT-based model to automatically predict the stance of a paper based on its title and abstract. We then analyse large-scale trends on over 41 k papers from the last approximately 35 years in NLP and ML, finding that papers have become substantially more positive over time, but negative papers also got more negative and we observe considerably more negative papers in recent years. Negative papers are also more influential in terms of citations they receive.

Sentiment analysis is analytical technique that uses statistics, natural language processing, and machine learning to determine the emotional meaning of communications. Companies use sentiment analysis to evaluate customer messages, call center interactions, online reviews, social media posts, and other content. Sentiment analysis can track changes in attitudes towards companies, products, or services, or individual features of those products or services. One of the most prominent examples of sentiment analysis on the Web today is the Hedonometer, a project of the University of Vermont's Computational Story Lab. The group analyzes more than 50 million English-language tweets every single day, about a tenth of Twitter's total traffic, to calculate a daily happiness store.

Sentiment analysis is analytical technique that uses statistics, natural language processing, and machine learning to determine the emotional meaning of communications. Companies use sentiment analysis to evaluate customer messages, call center interactions, online reviews, social media posts, and other content. Sentiment analysis can track changes in attitudes towards companies, products, or services, or individual features of those products or services. Get the latest insights with our CIO Daily newsletter. One of the most prominent examples of sentiment analysis on the Web today is the Hedonometer, a project of the University of Vermont's Computational Story Lab.

AI is on full rage nowadays. We are seeing how Zuckerberg is making J.A.R.V.I.S out of it for the most complex things, and have also witnessed how a startup RightClick.io is claiming to make websites out of it. Everyone is in the ship including the bloggers and influencers who are predicting the future with advancements that we should keep eye on. All in all, we know that AI is going to have a bright future and there are no second thoughts about it. Along with AI, there are two more names we have been listening or reading with in the discussions, ML (Machine Learning) and NLP (Natural Language Processing).