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Abstract: Word embedding is possessed by Natural language processing as a key procedure for semantically and syntactically manipulating the unlabeled text corpus. While this process represents the ...

The word originally entered English usage in the 18th century, when it referred to wet soil or mud. The term “slop”, commonly used online to describe low-quality or fabricated digital material, was ...

Impact Statement: Neural machine translation (NMT) is the contemporary state of the art for machine translation. However, NMT models are notoriously data-hungry and typically require very large ...

A growing surge of fake or weird content online often called ‘slop’ has been named Word of the Year 2025. The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s human editors said they defined slop as “digital content of ...

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition. On Dec. 15, the leading expert in language announced that “slop” had earned the title of word of the year for 2025. In case ...