Determining what a pronoun or noun phrase refers back to in text.
This concept is essential for understanding natural language processing and forms a key part of modern AI systems.
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- Coreference Resolution
- NLP
- Semantics
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Anaphora Resolution
Determining what a pronoun or noun phrase refers back to in text.
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- Natural Language Processing ✓ understood
The field of AI that lets computers read, interpret, translate and generate human language, from spam filters and search to chatbots.
- Token ✓ understood
The basic unit of text that a language model processes, typically representing a word, subword, or character. Tokens are the fundamental building blocks for LLM input and output.
- Named Entity Recognition ✓ understood
Identifying and classifying named entities (people, organizations, locations) in text into predefined categories.
- Coreference Resolution ✓ understood
Identifying all expressions in text that refer to the same entity (e.g., linking pronouns to nouns).
- Anaphora Resolution · you are here ✓ understood
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Language & LLMs Entity Linking Linking entity mentions in text to entries in a knowledge base. Language & LLMs Named Entity Recognition Identifying and classifying named entities (people, organizations, locations) in text into predefined categories. Language & LLMs Word Sense Disambiguation Determining which meaning of a word is used in a particular context. Language & LLMs Semantic Role Labeling Identifying the semantic relationships between predicates and their arguments in sentences.