Beyond NLP: 8 challenges to building a chatbot

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Current challenges of implementing NLP in BI

So as we develop NLP for the legal domain, there’s some game theory involved. AI also surfaces information that previously would have been difficult to find, because you weren’t looking for it. For example, let’s say a firm is the industry leader in oil and gas law, specializing in mineral rights, and they developed and licensed an AI package to review mineral rights in the state of Wyoming. That may sound like niche expertise but if the software were made available for other attorneys to use, it could alert a lawyer in Florida who is reviewing deeds for a deceased client who has mineral rights in Wyoming. In the legal domain, AI can uncover all kinds of important information.

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As a seasoned data scientist, Bernardo recommends that the best way to implement such NLP solutions is to work in phases, with small and very objective deliveries, measuring and tracking the results. Signs of a ChatGPT boost to NLP efforts appeared last month as Microsoft said Power BI development capabilities based on this model will be available through Azure OpenAI Service. The company followed up this week with generative AI capabilities for Power Virtual Agents. We give you the inside scoop on what companies are doing with generative AI, from regulatory shifts to practical deployments, so you can share insights for maximum ROI. NER, given a block of text, determines which items in the text map to proper names (like people or places) and what the type of each such name might be (person, location, organization).

By contrast, in health care, entity linking and knowledge graphs (41%) were among the top use cases, followed by deidentification (39%). Machine learning has an opportunity to drastically reduce or remove this burden and allow businesses to refocus on delivering value to their customers. AI for contract review makes it possible to automate the identification of contractual obligations that otherwise would be missed. Enterprises can proactively monitor and fulfill global, regional and local regulatory requirements, where previously this was a reactionary process requiring the payment of large fines when companies were out of compliance. Machine learning makes it possible to capture that collective knowledge and build on it. In the not-so-distant future, law firms will be able to harness the power of their partners’ experience and offer it as an additional service.

Today, AI can scan hundreds of pages of legal documents and remove much of the “noise,” or information that isn’t pertinent, that can distract you from the task at hand. That ease allows lawyers to focus their time and work more efficiently. According to Yashar Behzadi, CEO and founder of synthetic data platform Synthesis AI, generative AI approaches to NLP are still new, and a limited number of developers understand how to properly build and fine-tune the models. NLP models can also become more complex, and understanding how they arrive at certain decisions can be difficult.

One major challenge to implementing NLP in BI is that bias against certain groups or demographics may be found in NLP models. Another is that while NLP systems require vast amounts of data to function, collecting and using this data can raise serious privacy concerns. Likewise, Ivelize Rocha Bernardo, head of data and applied science at enterprise VR platform Mesmerise, believes that such implementations have made data analytics more transparent, and aided in democratizing organizations’ data.

Therefore, it is essential to focus on creating explainable models, i.e., making it easier to understand how the model arrived at a particular decision. “There are many successful use cases of NLP being used to optimize workflows, and one of them is to analyze social media to identify trends or brand engagement. Another successful case is the chatbots that improve customer service by automating the process of answering frequently asked questions, unblocking employees to focus on tasks that require human interaction,” Bernardo said. Collaboration in BI processes is important, according to Mesmerize’s Bernardo. She said that implementing NLP models is a collaboration between teams.

• Also this week, SalesForce announced OpenAI integrations that bring “enterprise ChatGPT” to SalesForce proprietary AI models for a range of tooling, including auto-summarizations that could impact BI workflows.
• “Employing NLP enables people who may not have the advanced skillset for sophisticated analysis to ask questions about their data in simple language.
• In an Anadot survey, 77% of companies with more than $2 million in cloud costs — which include API-based AI services like NLP — said they were surprised by how much they spent.
• Faris Sweis is senior vice president and general manager of the developer tooling business at Progress.
• The technology is maturing quickly, but core business-driven decisions should rely on tried-and-true BI approaches until confidence is established with new approaches,” added Behzadi.

• Years ago, a person’s word or handshake was all that was needed between two parties to do business.
• I caught up with Andy Abbott, Heretik’s CTO, to learn about the challenges his team has encountered in creating an AI solution for the legal domain.
• Today, AI can scan hundreds of pages of legal documents and remove much of the “noise,” or information that isn’t pertinent, that can distract you from the task at hand.
• “Stakeholders and executives can query the data through questions, and their BI platform could respond by providing relevant graphs.
• We’re unlikely to encounter sarcasm, for example, in a legal contract.

“Naive utilization of these approaches may lead to bias and inaccurate summarization. However, there are startups and more established companies creating enterprise versions of these systems to streamline the development of fine-tuned models, which should alleviate some of the current challenges,” said Behzadi. Organizations can automate many workflow tasks through natural language processing to get the relevant data. John Snow Labs’ and Gradient Flow’s 2021 NLP Industry Survey asked 655 technologists, about a quarter of which hold roles in technical leadership, about trends in NLP at their employers. The top four industries represented by respondents included health care (17%), technology (16%), education (15%), and financial services (7%). Fifty-four percent singled out named entity recognition (NER) as the primary use cases for NLP, while 46% cited document classification as their top use case.

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AI Challenges And Why Legal Is A Great Place To Kick-Start Great NLP

It is essential to have the support of a specialist in a domain to refine workflow architectures and work together with the data team. When NLP enhancement originally came to BI systems, “it was kind of clunky,” Henschen said. Enterprise developers had to work to curate the language that was common within the domain where the users of the data lived. That included identifying synonyms people might use to describe the same thing. Training and behind-the-scenes tools have gotten better at automating setups, he indicated.

That’s why companies often resort to hiring data scientists and data analysts to extract insights from their BI systems. An increasing number of global companies are now adopting NLP-driven business intelligence chatbots that can understand natural language and perform complex tasks related to BI. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been a catalytic event for AI in the legal domain. This one regulation requires the review of millions of contracts for global organizations. Many of our global customers are deploying our contract review solution to meet these governmental and regulatory obligations. As the report’s authors point out, experienced users of NLP tools and libraries understand that they often need to tune and customize models for their specific domains and applications.

Natural language processing (NLP), business intelligence (BI) and analytics have evolved in parallel in recent years. But there is much work ahead to adapt NLP for use in this highly competitive area. Join leaders from Block, GSK, and SAP for an exclusive look at how autonomous agents are reshaping enterprise workflows – from real-time decision-making to end-to-end automation. If such an evolution is not taken, chatbots will continue to be costlier to develop and maintain than traditional applications.