MILES VS spaCy

MILES is a multilingual text simplifier inspired by LSBert — A BERT-based lexical simplification approach proposed in 2018. Unlike LSBert, MILES uses the bert-base-multilingual-uncased model, as well as simple language-agnostic approaches to complex word identification (CWI) and candidate ranking. Although not all have been tested, MILES should support 22 languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Recently, I started working on another simplifier called MILES. MILES is loosely inspired by LSBert — another lexical simplifier that uses the large BERT uncased model to find substitutions for complex words. MILES works in a very similar way, however, it instead makes use of the multilingual BERT model, as well as fully language-agnostic methods for complex word identification and substitution ranking. As a result, MILES can (in theory) support a multitude of different languages. The GitHub repository can be found here, and below I've included an example text simplified by MILES, as well as an overview of the framework.

Hi Community, In this article, I will demonstrate below steps to create your own chatbot by using spaCy (spaCy is an open-source software library for advanced natural language processing, written in the programming languages Python and Cython):

SpaCy: An open-source library providing tools for advanced NLP tasks like tokenization, entity recognition, and part-of-speech tagging.

spaCy https://spacy.io/

In this article, I'm going to walk through a sentiment analysis project from start to finish, using open-source Amazon product reviews. However, using the same approach, you can easily implement mass sentiment analysis on your own products. We'll explore an approach to sentiment analysis with one of the most popular Python NLP packages: spaCy.

Spacy [0] is a state-of-art / easy-to-use NLP library from the pre-LLM era. This post is the Spacy founder's thoughts on how to integrate LLMs with the kind of problems that "traditional" NLP is used for right now. It's an advertisement for Prodigy [1], their paid tool for using LLMs to assist data labeling. That said, I think I largely agree with the premise, and it's worth reading the entire post.

The steps described in "LLM pragmatism" are basically what I see my data science friends doing — it's hard to justify the cost (money and latency) in using LLMs directly for all tasks, and even if you want to you'll need a baseline model to compare against, so why not use LLMs for dataset creation or augmentation in order to train a classic supervised model?

[0] https://spacy.io/

[1] https://prodi.gy/

spaCy

I chose spacy. Although it's not state of the art, it's very well established and stable.