Natural language processing (NLP) has made several remarkable breakthroughs in recent years by providing implementations for a range of applications including optical character recognition, speech recognition, text simplification, question-answering, machine translation, dialogue systems and much more.

With the help of NLP, systems learn to identify spam emails, suggest medical articles or diagnosis related to a patient’s symptoms, etc. NLP has also been utilised as a critical ingredient in case of crucial decision-making systems such as criminal justice, credit, allocation of public resources, sorting a list of job candidates, to name a few.

However, despite all these critical use cases, NLP is still lagging and faces the problem of underrepresentation. For instance, one of the significant limitations of NLP is the ambiguity of words in languages. The ambiguity and imprecise characteristics of the natural languages make NLP difficult for machines to implement.

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