Something very significant has happened to the field. And also to people. Christopher Potts Asking scientists to identify a paradigm shift, especially in real time, can be tricky. After all, truly ground-shifting updates in knowledge may take decades to unfold. But you don’t necessarily have to invoke the P-word to acknowledge that one field in particular — natural language processing, or NLP — has changed. A lot. The goal of natural language processing is right there on the tin: making the unru...