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.

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…

6 days 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…

3 weeks 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…

3 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…

4 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…

5 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…

6 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…

7 months ago

Latency, Cost, and Token Economics within Real-World NLP Applications

Introduction Natural language processing has moved rapidly from research labs to real business use. Today, LLM-powered systems support customer service,…

8 months ago