Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing via Large Pre-Trained Language Models: A Survey

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Large, pre-trained transformer-based language models such as BERT have drastically changed the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field.

• We present a survey of recent work that uses these large language models to solve NLP tasks via pre-training then fine-tuning, prompting, or text generation approaches.
• We also present approaches that use pre-trained language models to generate data for training augmentation or other purposes.
• We conclude with discussions on limitations and suggested directions for future research.