NLU

For most of my life, I have pondered a question that sits at the very center of howour brain works: how do we understand language?The question isn’t how we repeat language, nor how we recognize its surfacepatterns, but how we understand its meaning in context. If you ask ten expertsabout this subject, called Natural Language Understanding or NLU, you will getten different definitions because there are many theories available in academia!These tend to have origins in the 1950s or before and can be seen as validcompetitors in the absence of working solutions.But to most people, understanding is simple. It is the moment when wordsconnect to meaning. You do not ‘predict’ meaning (a popular paradigm in today’smachine learning community): you experience it. To many of us,…