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Natural language processing (NLP), which is the combination of machine learning and linguistics, has become one of the most heavily researched subjects in the field of artificial intelligence. In the last few years, many new milestones have been reached, the newest being OpenAI’s GPT-2 model, which is able to produce realistic and coherent articles about any topic from a short input.

This interest is driven by the many commercial applications that have been brought to market in recent years. We speak to our home assistants who use NLP to transcribe the audio data and to understand our questions and commands. More and more companies shift a big part of the customer communications effort to automated chatbots. Online marketplaces use it to identify fake reviews, media companies rely on NLP to write news articles, recruitment companies match CVs to positions, social media giants automatically filter hateful content, and legal firms use

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