Language Generation: Empowering AI to Create Human-Like Text

Introduction

Everton Gomede, PhD
6 min readJun 20, 2023

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Language generation is a fascinating field within Natural Language Processing (NLP) that focuses on empowering artificial intelligence (AI) models to generate human-like text. Through the application of advanced algorithms and models, language generation has made significant progress in recent years, enabling AI systems to produce coherent, contextually relevant, and engaging content. This essay explores the concept of language generation, its techniques, applications, and its impact on various industries.

Understanding Language Generation

Language generation involves the automatic creation of text that resembles human-generated language. It goes beyond simple template-based approaches and seeks to generate text that is contextually appropriate, coherent, and fluent. Language generation models aim to capture the intricacies of human language, including grammar, semantics, style, and even creativity.

Techniques and Approaches

  1. Rule-Based Systems: Rule-based approaches employ a set of predefined linguistic rules to generate text. These rules govern the structure, grammar, and style of the output. While they can be effective for simple tasks, they often struggle to handle complex language patterns or generate diverse and natural-sounding text.
  2. Statistical Methods: Statistical language generation leverages probabilistic models…

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Everton Gomede, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow Computer Scientist at the University of British Columbia creating innovative algorithms to distill complex data into actionable insights.