Neri Van Otten

Neri Van Otten is the founder of Spot Intelligence, a machine learning engineer with over 12 years of experience specialising in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and deep learning innovation. Dedicated to making your projects succeed.

BM25 — The Ranking Algorithm Behind Modern Search

Introduction: Why BM25 Matters Every search begins with a question: how do we find the most relevant information from thousands—or…

1 week ago

Sparse vs Dense Representations in NLP: How Should NLP Systems Represent Language?

Introduction How a computer represents language has a major impact on what it can learn from text. Before a machine…

3 weeks ago

Adversarial Attacks on NLP Systems; How Fragile Are They?

Introduction: When Language Models Get Confused Language models have become remarkably good at understanding and generating human language. They summarise…

1 month ago

Agentic NLP Systems: How Autonomous AI Agents Use Large Language Models

Introduction: The Shift from Models to Agents Over the past decade, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a remarkable transformation.…

3 months ago

Prompt Injection Attacks: Risks And How To Defend

Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become a core component of modern applications, powering chatbots, coding assistants, enterprise search…

4 months ago

Trust Calibration: How To Improve Trust in Natural Language Processing (NLP) Systems

Introduction: The Problem of Blind Trust in NLP Systems Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems have rapidly moved from research prototypes…

5 months ago

Human-in-the-Loop NLP: How To Designing Effective Feedback Cycles

Introduction: Why Human-in-the-Loop Still Matters Natural Language Processing systems have made enormous progress in recent years, largely driven by large-scale…

6 months ago

Long-Context NLP: How To Handle 100k+ Tokens

Introduction: The Context Length Revolution For most of NLP's history, models had a strict constraint: they could only “see” a…

6 months ago

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) in NLP: Scaling Without Exploding Costs

Introduction Modern NLP systems have advanced rapidly over the past decade, driven by the expansion of neural network architectures such…

7 months ago

Small Language Models (SLMs): Why Smaller, Cheaper Models Are Winning

Introduction: The Shift Toward Effectiveness Over the past few years, the development of artificial intelligence has largely been driven by…

8 months ago