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Natural Language Processing

Advancing language understanding and generation for seamless human-agent interaction. Building the communication layer that enables agents to collaborate with teams and each other.

Research Focus Areas

Agent-to-Human Communication

Creating natural, contextual interactions between autonomous agents and human team members.

  • Natural language explanations of agent decisions
  • Context-aware response generation
  • Tone and style adaptation for different audiences
  • Multilingual communication capabilities

Inter-Agent Communication Protocols

Efficient language-based coordination between agents in multi-agent systems.

  • Emergent communication protocols in MARL
  • Structured agent dialogue for task delegation
  • Semantic compression for agent-to-agent messaging
  • Cross-domain agent communication standards

Document Understanding & Generation

Advanced document processing for agents working with contracts, reports, and enterprise content.

  • Long-context document analysis
  • Multi-modal document understanding (text, tables, charts)
  • Automated report generation and summarization
  • Document synthesis from multiple sources

Domain-Specific Language Models

Specialized LMs optimized for specific industries and business functions.

  • Fine-tuning strategies for enterprise domains
  • Low-resource domain adaptation
  • Industry-specific terminology and jargon handling
  • Continual learning for domain evolution

Breakthrough Projects

In Production

Echo Protocol

Our proprietary agent communication protocol enabling seamless coordination across agent pods with 100x efficiency gains.

Research Preview

Domain LM Adaptation

Rapid fine-tuning framework that adapts LMs to new enterprise domains with minimal data and compute.

Beta

Contextual Memory

Long-term memory systems enabling agents to maintain context across thousands of interactions.

Featured Publications

Emergent Communication Protocols in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems

Cetacean NLP Team2025ACL

How structured agent hierarchies develop efficient communication protocols that minimize overhead while maintaining coordination.

Long-Context Understanding for Enterprise Document Processing

Cetacean NLP Team2024EMNLP

Novel architectures enabling agents to process and reason over documents exceeding 100K tokens with high accuracy.

Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Specialized Language Models

Cetacean NLP Team2024NAACL

Efficient methods for adapting large language models to specialized enterprise domains with limited training data.

Interested in Our NLP Research?

We're exploring collaborations with academic institutions and industry partners on advancing NLP for agentic systems.