Open Source Python Natural Language Processing (NLP) Tools

NVIDIA NeMo, part of the NVIDIA AI platform, is a toolkit for building new state-of-the-art conversational AI models. NeMo has separate collections for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models. Each collection consists of prebuilt modules that include everything needed to train on your data. Every module can easily be customized, extended, and composed to create new conversational AI model architectures. Conversational AI architectures are typically large and require a lot of data and compute for training. NeMo uses PyTorch Lightning for easy and performant multi-GPU/multi-node mixed-precision training. Supported models: Jasper, QuartzNet, CitriNet, Conformer-CTC, Conformer-Transducer, Squeezeformer-CTC, Squeezeformer-Transducer, ContextNet, LSTM-Transducer (RNNT), LSTM-CTC. NGC collection of pre-trained speech processing models.

STORM is an open-source virtual assistant framework developed by Stanford's OVAL lab. It is designed for creating natural language interfaces and assistants that can interact with APIs, databases, and services in a modular way.

Deep learning models have achieved impressive prediction performance but often sacrifice interpretability, a critical consideration in high-stakes domains such as healthcare or policymaking. In contrast, generalized additive models (GAMs) can maintain interpretability but often suffer from poor prediction performance due to their inability to effectively capture feature interactions. In this work, we aim to bridge this gap by using pre-trained neural language models to extract embeddings for each input before learning a linear model in the embedding space. The final model (which we call Emb-GAM) is a transparent, linear function of its input features and feature interactions. Leveraging the language model allows Emb-GAM to learn far fewer linear coefficients, model larger interactions, and generalize well to novel inputs. Across a variety of natural-language-processing datasets, Emb-GAM achieves strong prediction performance without sacrificing interpretability.