Stylized Language Processing (SLP)
Abstract
The Stylized Language Processing (SLP) program will develop automated language processing techniques for sources that exhibit high degrees of domain-specific specialization. Natural language processing (NLP), a venerable sub-field of AI, has produced advanced but inexact capabilities for computers to process, translate, capture, transform, and utilize the information contained in the text and speech humans use for their everyday communications. Highly stylized language, for which standard NLP is dubitable, has been encountered in new language genres such as the language intrinsic to social media, for which style may be so heavy as to resemble a code. Importantly, stylized language in a constrained form is also characteristic of technical, legal, scientific, and other more formal sources encountered in specialized domains. Finally, the challenges that arise from language manifestations as influenced by culture, emotion, and media choice provide further motivation for language processing capabilities that exploit features of style. These cases challenge standard NLP but also offer opportunities for greater accuracy. The SLP program will develop language processing technologies for stylized language as it is used in specialized domains, new communication and social media, and by diverse cultures and populations. The techniques developed under the SLP program will be coordinated with DoD operators and applied to military application areas such as the engineering development of complex systems and intelligence analysis of foreign language information in cultural context.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 19f085d7829b3992689fcc34177e5fbd