Natural Language Processing for Educational Technology Developers
Are you an EdTech developer considering artificial intelligence within your product line? Even Google’s artificial intelligence focus is shifting towards more AI into general Google products. More software and hardware will begin including artificial intelligence as a competitive advantage. Education will be no different.
Natural language programming or NLP is a natural first choice for most developers beginning their forays into artificial intelligence. Natural language processing can take all kinds of things like social media, emails, and documents as input crunching it down, pulling out the meaning while categorizing and scoring with confidence.
Educational developers will want to use natural language processing for organizing and categorizing documents or making better content recommendations to students and faculty. Other uses may include helping with semantic searches so that queries can focus on intent of user, not literal keywords. Of course, the real competitive advantage will come from those who can imagine a use for natural language processing by providing a competitive advantage.
Educational technology will undoubtedly see out-of-the-box thinking as more applications begin including artificial intelligence.
Products like Amazon Comprehend take care of training data sets for you. You don’t have to worry about a training library, even though there are vast libraries available for free, like this one from GitHub. As with many other process intensive applications, the cloud is playing a significant role in making artificial intelligence attainable for today’s developer. Amazon Comprehend is an Amazon web service, which makes it relatively easy for testing and development, as well as production. This puts the advantages of advanced machine learning into the hands of even novice developers, allowing educational technologists to spend more time creating solutions for learners and less time worrying about their ML Stack.
