Dan Jurafsky: How AI is changing our understanding of language

By Stanford School of Engineering - 2021-03-12

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Scholars of natural language processing are exploring the human emotions and social meanings behind the words we use. | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Summary

  • The words we choose reveal what we think, how we feel and even what our biases are.
  • Jurafsky says that his field, known as natural language processing (NLP), is now in the midst of a shift from simply trying to understanding the literal meaning of words to digging into the human emotions and the social meanings behind those words.
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  1. NLP (0.37)
  2. Database (0.04)
  3. Stock (0.04)

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