Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Taxonomy

The area of Natural Language processing (NLP) research has exploded in recent times. Building Large Language Models (LLM) is a big player within the NLP landscape, but not the only game in town.

I would like to point you towards an excellent paper by Schopf et al (2023) who classified and analysed NLP research papers into a taxonomy.

Multimodality

Natural Language Interfaces

Semantic Text Processing

Sentiment Analysis

Syntactic Text Processing

Linguistics and Cognitive NLP

Responsible and Trustworthy NLP

Reasoning

Multilinguality

Information Retrieval

Information Extraction and Text Mining

Text Generation

Paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.10652.pdf

There is also a supporting blog post: https://towardsdatascience.com/a-taxonomy-of-natural-language-processing-dfc790cb4c01