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The Automated Writing Assistance Landscape in 2021

Automated writing assistance — a category that encompasses a variety of computer-based tools that help with writing — has been around in...

GPT-3: What’s it good for?

GPT-3 made the mainstream media headlines this year, generating far more interest than we’d normally expect of a technical advance in...

Natural Language Generation: The Commercial State of the Art in 2020

It took a while, but natural language generation is now an established commercial software category. It’s commented upon frequently in...

Voice Assistance in 2019

The end of the calendar year always seems like a good time to pause for breath and reflect on what’s been happening over the last 12...

Five Tips for a Successful API

It’s now remarkably easy to release to the world a cloud-based application programming interface (API) that provides some software...

NLP commercialization in the last 25 years

The Natural Language Engineering journal is now in its 25th year. The editorial preface to the first issue back in 1995 emphasized that...

Law and Word Order: NLP in Legal Tech

The law has language at its heart, so it’s not surprising that software that operates on natural language has played a role in some areas...

Text Analytics APIs, Part 2: The Smaller Players

It seems like there’s yet another cloud-based text analytics Application Programming Interface (API) on the market every few weeks. If...

Text Analytics APIs, Part 1: The Bigger Players

If you’re in the market for an off-the-shelf text analytics API, you have a lot of options. You can choose to go with a major player in...

The Pros and Cons of Listening Devices

Vastly improved speech recognition, backed by a more slowly improving ability to make sense of the recognised speech, has brought...

NLP in a Post-Truth World

We live in a post-truth world. It now matters more whether people think something is true than whether something really is true. This is...

The Return of the Chatbots

By all accounts, 2016 is the year of the chatbot. Some commentators take the view that chatbot technology will be so disruptive that it...