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Amazon Scholar Kathleen McKeown takes stock of natural-language processing: where we are, and where we’re going

Everyone is obsessing over GPT-4. Nobody is talking about what Amazon's top NLP researcher sees coming next.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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A veteran Amazon NLP researcher with 40 years of experience provides strategic insights on where natural language processing is heading, offering perspectives that could inform AI investment and development priorities.

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  1. Nearly 40 years of NLP research experience

  2. ACL 2020 keynote speaker

  3. Three key improvement areas identified

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Publisher excerpt: After nearly 40 years of research, the ACL 2020 keynote speaker sees big improvements coming in three key areas.
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