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Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

Navigating the Text Generation Revolution: Traditional Data-to-Text NLG Companies and the Rise of…

Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, generative AI has been talked about endlessly in both the technical press and the…

22 min readJun 26, 2023

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Navigating the Text Generation Revolution: Traditional Data-to-Text NLG Companies and the Rise of…

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Towards Data Science

NLP Startup Funding in 2022

It’s no secret that the commercial application of NLP technologies has exploded in recent years. From chatbots and virtual assistants to…

32 min readJan 9, 2023

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NLP Startup Funding in 2022

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Robert Dale
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Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

The Voice Synthesis Business: 2022 Update

In the past few years, high-quality automated text-to-speech synthesis has effectively become a commodity, with easy access to cloud-based…

18 min readApr 13, 2022

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The Voice Synthesis Business: 2022 Update

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Towards Data Science

$NLP: How to Spend a Billion Dollars

A whistle-stop tour of around 120 NLP start-ups that received early-stage funding in the last 12 months

25 min readDec 23, 2021

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$NLP: How to Spend a Billion Dollars

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Towards Data Science

The Automated Writing Assistance Landscape in 2021

A panoramic look at the past and future of the field, from the Unix Writer’s Workbench to Grammarly and beyond

16 min readJul 15, 2021

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The Automated Writing Assistance Landscape in 2021

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Towards Data Science

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 NLP…

13 min readDec 8, 2020

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GPT-3: What’s it good for?

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Robert Dale
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Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

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…

16 min readJun 7, 2020

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Natural Language Generation:
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Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

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…

15 min readDec 30, 2019

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Voice Assistance in 2019

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Towards Data Science

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…

10 min readSep 26, 2019

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Five Tips for a Successful API

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Towards Data Science

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…

15 min readMay 20, 2019

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NLP commercialization in the last 25 years

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Robert Dale

Robert Dale

Principal Consultant at the Language Technology Group, a company that provides unbiased advice on Natural Language Processing solutions.

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