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 Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a a misleading term, highly discussed in the Conversational AI / scientific community.
-In recent years, especially in the chatbot engineering industry, we tend to use NLU to mean an intent/entities classifier, based on machine learning techniques (transformers, etc.). The main open source project / state of the art of this approach is probably the [https://rasa.com/blog/introducing-dual-intent-and-entity-transformer-diet-state-of-the-art-performance-on-a-lightweight-architecture/ RASA DIET classifier].
+In recent years, especially in the [[chatbot]] engineering industry, we tend to use NLU to mean an [[intent]]/entities classifier, based on machine learning techniques (transformers, etc.). The main open source project / state of the art of this approach is probably the [https://rasa.com/blog/introducing-dual-intent-and-entity-transformer-diet-state-of-the-art-performance-on-a-lightweight-architecture/ RASA DIET classifier].
 Besides, in terms of linguistic, and psycho-linguistic/cognitive scientific disciplines, there is a great skepticism about naming "language understanding" a ML-based classifier of intents (and entities). A growing number of researcher linguists state that it's even impossible to understand language with machine language techniques (the more famous and currently debated is probably [[GPT-3]]). One of the scientist more active in this battle is [https://ontologik.medium.com/ Walid Saba].