Natural Language Processing
Natural language processing, or NLP, is the science of taking human expression and turning it into computable forms. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are our most advanced forms of this, but using even simple NLP techniques can be helpful to clean data. Particularly when we are interested in queries (not the Specify kind) that are “give me something like X” but we don’t have a very structured way of discovering X, simple NLP techniques can get us closer what we want to find. This is in contrast to Specify’s current model of structured queries requiring you to know the specific field that you’re interested in finding.