Introducing the NLU showroom: A NLU demonstrator for the German language

We present the NLU Showroom, a platform for interactively demonstrating the functionality of natural language understanding models with easy to use visual interfaces. The NLU Showroom focuses primarily on the German language, as not many German NLU resources exist. However, it also serves corresponding English models to reach a broader audience. With the NLU Showroom we demonstrate and compare the capabilities and limitations of a variety of NLP/NLU models. The four initial demonstrators include a) a comparison on how different word representations capture semantic similarity b) a comparison on how different sentence representations interpret sentence similarity c) a showcase on analyzing reviews with NLU d) a showcase on finding links between entities. The NLU Showroom is build on state-of-the-art architectures for model serving and data processing. It targets a broad audience, from newbies to researchers but puts a focus on putting the presented models in the context of industrial applications.