NLP Expert Group

NLP, short for Natural Language Processing, tackles challenges in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence that deal with natural language. For humans, natural language in spoken and written form is taught at an early age, and we have an intuitive grasp on complex tasks such categorisation and translation. However, while computers support us in increasingly more ways, the flexibility and complexity of natural language still poses many challenges.

As the TNO NLP expert group, we study and utilise techniques such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Sentence Transformers. These techniques can be used for several NLP tasks such as Extraction, Generation, Matching, Analysis, and Interaction.

Within TNO, we are part of the Data Science department, and work together with our AI portfolio teams (Communicative AI and AI Based Analysis & Decisions) to integrate our technical solutions within industry. For more information on TNO's AI program, see the Appl.AI page.

• Extraction

  Keywords, Summarisation, Text to Knowledge Graph

• Generation

  Synthetic Data, Style Transfer, Retriever Augmentation (RAG)

• Matching

  Categorisation, Concept Matching

• Analysis

  Bias Detection & Mitigation, Sentiment, LLM Evaluation

• Interaction

  Chatbots, Decision Support, Smart Search