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J. BjergThe Early-Career Professional’s Guide to Generative AIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0456-4_3

3. Understanding Language Models

Jonas Bjerg1  
(1)
København S, Denmark
 

Language models have a role in natural language processing (NLP), a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on the interaction between computers and human language. In essence, language models are structures created to predict the likelihood of word sequences occurring in a given language. This predictive ability forms the basis for applications ranging from spell-check and autocomplete features to complex tasks like machine translation and text generation.

In this chapter, we ...

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