Applications and Future Directions

Chapter 57: NLP in Search and Recommendation Query understanding, ranking algorithms Applications: Google Search, Netflix recommendations [Semantic search, click-through rate modeling, personalization] References Chapter 58: NLP for Healthcare Clinical note processing, diagnosis support Applications: EHR analysis, medical chatbots [ICD coding, clinical NLP datasets, HIPAA compliance] References Chapter 59: Conversational Agents Chatbots, virtual assistants, social bots Applications: Customer service, education [RASA, Dialogflow, emotional intelligence] References Chapter 60: NLP for Code and Programming Code generation, understanding, and debugging Models: Codex, CodeT5, AlphaCode [Code completion, bug detection, program synthesis] References Chapter 61: Creative NLP Applications Text generation, narrative AI, poetry Applications: Storytelling, content creation [Style transfer, interactive fiction, AI-assisted writing] References Chapter 62: Industry Case Studies NLP in e-commerce, finance, education Applications: Fraud detection, automated grading [Sentiment analysis for reviews, contract analysis, adaptive learning] References Chapter 63: Future of NLP Multimodal NLP, neurosymbolic models, general language intelligence Speculative trends: Brain-inspired NLP, quantum NLP [Cognitive architectures, hybrid reasoning, AGI alignment] References