Comparing LLMs with NLP++
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Comparing LLMs with NLP++ |
| Author(s) | David de Hilster |
| Published in | NLU Global |
| Date | 2026-04-03 |
| Subject area | Artificial Intelligence |
| Topics | NLP++, large language models |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Comparing LLMs with NLP++" is an article by David de Hilster published on 3 April 2026 on NLU Global, also carried on VisualText, written in response to questions prompted by the release of the NLP++ textbook.
De Hilster argues the two are not competing approaches to one problem but different kinds of thing. NLP++ is a programming language for writing programs that read text, supplied with example analyzers and a full English parser, but every analyzer must be built by hand, case by case. What that effort buys is code that is fully deterministic, inspectable, fixable when wrong, cheap to run and able to run locally.