Natural Language Understanding
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) will be key for making the most of AI and enables tasks as wide ranging as using voice assistants at home to a reliable automatization of certain social services. To accelerate innovation, development of applications, and implementation in this area, NLU therefore constitutes one of AI Sweden’s strategic initiatives.
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What is Natural Language Understanding?
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a collective term for the applied aspects of how computer programs or electronic devices can analyze, produce, modify or respond to human text and speech.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a core element of this area. NLP algorithms (language models) learn from language data. They enable machine understanding and machine representation of natural (human) language. Using NLP, applications and tools can be used to identify patterns and provide insights hidden in large amounts of language data, too vast for humans to process. Based on patterns and insights, unstructured data can be turned into actionable information, allowing us to make data-driven and well-informed decisions.
In order for Sweden to benefit from the rapid development in the applied language technology area, language models need to be trained on datasets for Swedish and minority languages spoken in Sweden.
Latest news from the NLU team
Unique language model expertise strengthens Swedish and European independence
Sustainable data strategies for natural language understanding
Nina Ökvist appointed new Head of NLU at AI Sweden
AI Sweden in collaboration with OpenAI: Evaluating unique open models
Svea's third phase almost fully subscribed
New models and features improve Svea
AI Sweden contributes to the development of open LLMs for transparent AI in Europe
Ongoing projects
A shared digital assistant for the public sector
DeployAI
EuroLingua-GPT
FormAI
Next generation infrastructure
OpenEuroLLM
TrustLLM
Past projects
Data Readiness Lab
GPT-SW3
GPT-SW3 validation project
Interdisciplinary expert pool for NLU
Language Models for Swedish Authorities
Multimodal language model
SuperLim
Swedish Language Data Lab
Swedish Medical Language Data Lab
Meet the team
Amelia Högberg
NLU updates
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NLP Seminar Series
The NLP Seminar Series was a bi-weekly forum for people who work with or are interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and language technologies. While we don't have any upcoming seminars planned, you can head over to our YouTube channel to watch the recordings.
The seminars were organized by RISE NLP group and AI Sweden.
