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Deborah A. Dahl
Deborah A. Dahl
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Deborah A. Dahl

Deborah A. Dahl is the principal at Conversational Technologies, with over 30 years of experience in natural language understanding technology. She has developed numerous natural language processing systems for research, commercial, and government applications, including a system for NASA, and speech and natural language components on Android. She has taught over 20 workshops on natural language processing, consulted on many natural language processing applications for her customers, and written over 75 technical papers. Th is is Deborah's fourth book on natural language understanding topics. Deborah has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota and postdoctoral studies in cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Future directions in NLU technology and research

While the recent improvements in NLU technology based on transformers and LLMs, which we reviewed in Chapter 11, have resulted in very impressive capabilities, it is important to point out that there are many topics in NLU that are far from solved. In this section, we will look at some of the most active research areas – extending NLU to new languages, speech-to-speech translation, multimodal interaction, and avoiding bias.

Quickly extending NLU technologies to new languages

A precise count of the number of currently spoken languages is difficult to obtain. However, according to WorldData.info, there are currently about 6,500 languages spoken throughout the world (https://www.worlddata.info/languages/index.php#:~:text=There%20are%20currently%20around%206%2C500,of%20Asia%2C%20Australia%20and%20Oceania). Some languages, such as Mandarin, English, Spanish, and Hindi, are spoken by many millions of people, while other languages...

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Deborah A. Dahl

Deborah A. Dahl is the principal at Conversational Technologies, with over 30 years of experience in natural language understanding technology. She has developed numerous natural language processing systems for research, commercial, and government applications, including a system for NASA, and speech and natural language components on Android. She has taught over 20 workshops on natural language processing, consulted on many natural language processing applications for her customers, and written over 75 technical papers. Th is is Deborah's fourth book on natural language understanding topics. Deborah has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota and postdoctoral studies in cognitive science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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