Natural language processing

News and Updates

NIST to Host Technical Language Processing Virtual Workshop on 24-25 September 2024

July 1, 2024

NIST will hold a virtual workshop on Technical Language Processing on 24-25 September 2024. Online registration is $33.00 USD and is available via the workshop

Working With Workspace Words: NIST Helps Compose Technical Language Processing Tutorial at PHM 23

December 1, 2023

NIST helped to foster awareness, debate, and education at the Technical Language Processing (TLP) Tutorial of the 15 th Annual Conference of the Prognostics and

NIST Tools for Searching the Coronavirus Dataset

New resources developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts in natural language processing and data curation and discovery allow researchers to get the most

Projects and Programs

A natural language processing approach to information indexing and searching

A novel root and rule-based natural language processing (NLP) approach to information indexing and searching

Ongoing

Whether at the level of the individual, team, project or program, research and engineering work must keep abreast of huge amounts of published information that might contain discoveries or needed elements for discoveries crucial to its success. We, in collaboration with Software and Systems Division

Publications

Human-in-the-loop Technical Document Annotation: Developing and Validating a System to Provide Machine-Assistance for Domain-Specific Text Analysis

May 14, 2024

Author(s)

Juan Fung, Zongxia Li, Daniel Stephens, Andrew Mao, Pranav Goel, Emily Walpole, Alden A. Dima, Jordan Boyd-Graber

In this report, we address the following question: to what extent can machine learning assist a human with traditional text analysis, such as content analysis

Improving the TENOR of Labeling: Re-evaluating Topic Models for Content Analysis

March 23, 2024

Author(s)

Zongxia Li, Andrew Mao, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Daniel Stephens, Emily Walpole, Alden A. Dima, Juan Fung

Topic models are a popular tool for understanding text collections, but their evaluation has been a point of contention. Automated evaluation metrics such as

KPI Extraction from Maintenance Work Orders—A Comparison of Expert Labeling, Text Classification and AI-Assisted Tagging for Computing Failure Rates of Wind Turbines

December 6, 2023

Author(s)

Marc-Alexander Lutz, Bastian Schäfermeier, Rachael Sexton, Michael Sharp, Alden A. Dima, Stefan Faulstich, Jagan Mohini Aluri

Maintenance work orders are commonly used to document information about wind turbine operation and maintenance. This includes details about proactive and

META LEARNING WITH LANGUAGE MODELS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF IMBALANCED TEXT

October 23, 2023

Author(s)

Apostol Vassilev, Honglan Jin, Munawar Hasan

Detecting out of policy speech (OOPS) content is important but difficult. While machine learning is a powerful tool to tackle this challenging task, it is hard

Software

Nestor

May 23, 2019

The Nestor Graphical User Interface (GUI) is a free toolkit that helps maintainers annotate their Maintenance Work Order (MWO) data through a process called