Yes, you still need old-school NLP skills in “the age of ChatGPT”

Large Language Models have their strengths, but for many production problems, simpler NLP techniques are faster, cheaper, and just as effective.

7 min read

Feb 12, 2024

Large Language Models require new skills, but it’s important not to forget the old ones too, like how to prepare the text data the LLM should use. Source: Markus Winkler on Unsplash.

Back when I started a masters of Computational Linguistics, no-one I knew had even the faintest idea what Natural Language…