LastWords: Boring Problems Revisited
In 2022, the second author published a Last Words piece in Computational Linguistics in which he pointed out that, despite the advances in AI up to that point, there were still some problems in natural language processing that on the one hand seemed trivial and perhaps boring, but on the other were hard to solve using purely neural methods. One such problem discussed in that context was text normalization, and a particular subproblem of that, namely number name reading. The piece came out just a few months before the first release of ChatGPT, and needless to say, a lot has happened since then. Indeed, as we document here, the problem (of number name reading) has practically been solved, a...
| Authors | Huayang Li, Richard Sproat |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 17 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 17 October 2026 |
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