Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
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The half-space KPZ line ensemble and its scaling limit
Sayan Das, Christian Serio
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