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7 fact-checked facts about natural language processing and how computers understand text, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.

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The basics

Splitting text into words or subword pieces is called what?

AnswerTokenization

Tokenization breaks text into units a model can process.

Which 1950 test judges machine intelligence through conversation?

AnswerThe Turing Test

Alan Turing proposed the imitation game in 1950.

Going deeper

Who created the early chatbot ELIZA?

AnswerJoseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum built ELIZA at MIT in the mid-1960s.

What does stemming do?

AnswerReduces words to a root form

Stemming turns words like running and runs toward the stem run.

The BERT language model was developed by which company?

AnswerGoogle

Google researchers released BERT in 2018.

Expert level

What does BERT stand for?

AnswerBidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers

BERT reads context from both directions using Transformer encoders.

ELIZA's best-known script imitated which kind of conversation partner?

AnswerA Rogerian psychotherapist

The DOCTOR script reflected users' statements back as questions.

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