Introduction to Real Context in NLU

Context, as a person knows it, is one of the areas factored out by today’s NLU systems. Let’s put it back in. (image: Adobe stock)

Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist, was told he would lose half of his audience for every equation he used in his book, “A Brief History of Time.” But he included this anyway:

Similarly, today’s title could be “how to use discourse-pragmatics and information structure for Natural Language Understanding (NLU),” but that would probably lose the entire audience!