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Natural Language Processing

MachineLearningTask AIO:NaturalLanguageProcessing NOT_REVIEWED

A machine learning task focused on the interactions between computers and human language including programming computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.

Ontology IRI: https://w3id.org/aio/NaturalLanguageProcessing

Ontology Structure & Relationships

Parent Classes

AIO:MachineLearningTask (Machine Learning Task)

Branches

MachineLearningTask

Annotations & Sources

Synonyms:

NLP exact

Definition Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing

Subsets:

https://w3id.org/aio/MachineLearningSubset

Curated AIMech Concepts Grounded to this Class

15 Concepts

Curated Concept	Kind	Mapping Relation	Rationale
Absolute threshold pruning for sequence beams `AIMech:AbsoluteThresholdBeamPruning`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
Bounded adaptive reward for sequence scoring `AIMech:BoundedAdaptiveReward`	Mathematical Methods	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
Bounded length reward for sequence scoring `AIMech:BoundedLengthReward`	Mathematical Methods	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
Brevity-penalty normalization for sequence scoring `AIMech:BrevityPenaltyNormalization`	Mathematical Methods	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
Diverse beam search `AIMech:DiverseBeamSearch`	Algorithms	related_match	The inspected primary paper develops this decoder for natural-language sequence generation, including machine translation. The exact AIO CLASS denotes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is separate from the model supplying probabilities and is not restricted to natural-language sequences.
First-come, first-served beam decoding `AIMech:FCFSBeamDecoding`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines these sequence-decoding policies for natural-language generation, including translation and summarization. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is not a trained language model and can also be used outside NLP.
Memory-reduced best-first beam search for sequence decoding `AIMech:MemoryReducedSequenceBeamSearch`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines these decoding procedures for sequential structured prediction and develops them around natural-language transduction. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is not a trained language model and can also be used outside NLP.
Beam decoding with a monotone-score stopping certificate `AIMech:OptimalStoppingBeamDecoding`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
Patience-controlled FCFS beam decoding `AIMech:PatienceControlledBeamDecoding`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines these sequence-decoding policies for natural-language generation, including translation and summarization. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is not a trained language model and can also be used outside NLP.
Maximum candidates per node in sequence beam pruning `AIMech:PerNodeCandidateBeamPruning`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
Bounded word reward with predicted length `AIMech:PredictedLengthBoundedReward`	Mathematical Methods	related_match	The primary paper defines this sequence scoring, stopping or pruning method for natural-language generation, with neural machine translation as its central setting. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an method-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the method is not a trained language-model instance and may also apply outside NLP.
A-star beam search for sequence decoding `AIMech:SequenceAStarBeamSearch`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines these decoding procedures for sequential structured prediction and develops them around natural-language transduction. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is not a trained language model and can also be used outside NLP.
Best-first beam search with per-length budgets `AIMech:SequenceBestFirstBeamSearch`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines these decoding procedures for sequential structured prediction and develops them around natural-language transduction. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is not a trained language model and can also be used outside NLP.
Stochastic beam search `AIMech:StochasticBeamSearch`	Algorithms	related_match	The inspected primary paper develops this decoder for natural-language sequence generation, including machine translation. The exact AIO CLASS denotes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is separate from the model supplying probabilities and is not restricted to natural-language sequences.
Vanilla sequence beam decoding `AIMech:VanillaSequenceBeamDecoding`	Algorithms	related_match	The primary paper defines these sequence-decoding policies for natural-language generation, including translation and summarization. The exact AIO CLASS describes the language-processing task. This is an algorithm-to-application-domain relationship, not equivalence or an is-a assertion; the decoder is not a trained language model and can also be used outside NLP.

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