Looking into the Future of Natural Language Processing

Abstract

It has been a long journey, from theory to methods to code. We hope the book took you painlessly through experiments and real NLP exercises, as much as this is possible, and that you enjoyed it as much as we did. Now, it is time to wrap up. Here, we provide guidelines for future directions in hybrid natural language processing and share our final remarks, additional thoughts, and vision. As a bonus, we also include the personal view of a selection of experts on topics related to hybrid natural language processing. We asked them to comment on their vision, foreseeable barriers to achieve such vision, and ways to navigate towards it, including opportunities and challenges in promising research fields and areas of industrial application. Now it is up to you. Hopefully this book gave you the necessary tools to build powerful NLP systems. Use them!