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Likewise, Ivelize Rocha Bernardo, head of data and applied science at enterprise VR platform Mesmerise, believes that such implementations have made data analytics more transparent, and aided in democratizing organizations’ data. This convenience plays a significant role in promoting an organization’s analytics culture. By applying NLP to BI tools, even non-technical personnel can independently analyze data rather than rely on IT specialists to generate complex reports. That means users can obtain actionable insights through a conversational interface without having to access the BI application every time.

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So as we develop NLP for the legal domain, there’s some game theory involved. “There are many successful use cases of NLP being used to optimize workflows, and one of them is to analyze social media to identify trends or brand engagement. Another successful case is the chatbots that improve customer service by automating the process of answering frequently asked questions, unblocking employees to focus on tasks that require human interaction,” Bernardo said.

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It fundamentally changes the way work is done in the legal profession, where knowledge is a commodity. Historically, law firms have been judged on their collective partners’ experience, which is essentially a form of intellectual property (IP). Explore the future of AI on August 5 in San Francisco—join Block, GSK, and SAP at Autonomous Workforces to discover how enterprises are scaling multi-agent systems with real-world results. We give you the inside scoop on what companies are doing with generative AI, from regulatory shifts to practical deployments, so you can share insights for maximum ROI. Such generative AI can help out with software programming languages, not just the language of business, noted Doug Henschen. For his part, Yaniv Makover, CEO and co-founder of AI copywriting platform Anyword, said that his company is observing an increasing need for “copy intelligence,” a BI approach to managing communications with the market across channels.

Previously Sweis was the chief technical officer at Telerik, which was acquired by Progress in 2014, and prior to that he spent 10 years at Microsoft. Faris Sweis is senior vice president and general manager of the developer tools business at Progress.

• To facilitate cross-border e-commerce, Si said Alibaba has built a translation platform to overcome the language barrier.
• But Choi notes that truly robust models shouldn’t need perfect grammar to understand a sentence.
• Previously Sweis was the chief technical officer at Telerik, which was acquired by Progress in 2014, and prior to that he spent 10 years at Microsoft.
• One major challenge to implementing NLP in BI is that bias against certain groups or demographics may be found in NLP models.

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Mapping the context, specificity, and personalization of NLP to the industry it serves is challenging. We’re unlikely to encounter sarcasm, for example, in a legal contract. “Computer systems would need to be able to parse and interpret the many ways people ask questions about data, including domain-specific terms (e.g., the medical industry).

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• People who speak English as a second language sometimes mix up their grammar but still convey their meaning.
• “Stakeholders and executives can query the data through questions, and their BI platform could respond by providing relevant graphs.
• Until pretty recently, computers were hopeless at producing sentences that actually made sense.
• When NLP enhancement originally came to BI systems, “it was kind of clunky,” Henschen said.
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Before storing any data, organizations need to consider the user benefits, why the data need to be stored, and act according to regulations and best practices to protect user data,” said Bernardo. “With NLP-enabled chatbots and question-answering interfaces, visual analytical workflows are no longer tied to the traditional dashboard experience. People can ask questions in Slack to quickly get data insights,” Setlur told VentureBeat. “Natural language querying and natural language explanation are pretty much routinely found in most every BI analytics product today,” Doug Henschen, analyst at Constellation Research, told VentureBeat. Systems such as Domo, Google Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Insight Advisor Chat, Tableau, SiSense Fusion and ThoughtSpot Everywhere have seen NLP updates. These have made data consumption considerably more convenient as business users retrieve data through natural language queries.

Alibaba has since been overtaken by Ping An and Baidu in the Glue benchmark, though the performance scores of their NLP models remain close. But Choi notes that truly robust models shouldn’t need perfect grammar to understand a sentence. People who speak English as a second language sometimes mix up their grammar but still convey their meaning. Ernest Davis, one of the researchers who worked on the original Winograd challenge, says that many of the example sentence pairs listed in the paper are “seriously flawed,” with confusing grammar. “They don’t correspond to the way that people speaking English actually use pronouns,” he wrote in an email. Understanding end users’ preferences and needs is a continuing imperative for NLP and business intelligence, as is the need to programmatically sort through masses of data.

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“When you develop an algorithm, you want to show that it can benefit hundreds of thousands of customers. While he has earned several academic accolades, including a career award from the US National Science Foundation, he wanted to do something with real-world impact. It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. While NLP has advanced, and can help solve a range of problems, language itself is still complicated and ambiguous. As a seasoned data scientist, Bernardo recommends that the best way to implement such NLP solutions is to work in phases, with small and very objective deliveries, measuring and tracking the results. Faris Sweis is senior vice president and general manager of the developer tooling business at Progress.