Table 23.

Comparison of the terms predicted in 2015 for the next 5 years (2016–2020) with the actual observations on these years (Predictions are in italics. Terms correctly predicted to appear among the 10 top terms are marked in yellow, term correctly predicted at its rank is marked in green).

Predicted in 2015						Observed in 2020
Prediction 2016	Prediction 2017	Prediction 2018	Prediction 2019	Prediction 2020	Rank	Observation 2016	Observation 2017	Observation 2018	Observation 2019	Observation 2020
Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	1	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset
DNN	DNN	DNN	DNN	DNN	2	Annotation	Embedding	Embedding	Embedding	Embedding
Annotation	Neural network	Neural network	Neural network	Neural network	3	DNN	DNN	Annotation	Encoder	BERT
POS	SR	RNN	RNN	RNN	4	embedding	LSTM	LSTM	LSTM	Annotation
Neural network	Classifier	POS	Parser	Parser	5	SR	SR	DNN	Decoder	Encoder
Classifier	LM	Parser	SR	SR	6	LSTM	RNN	SR	LM	LM
Parser	POS	Annotation	LM	Metric	7	POS	Annotation	RNN	Metric	Transformer
SR	RNN	Classifier	Classifier	POS	8	Classifier	Neural network	Encoder	BERT	SR
LM	parser	SR	Metric	Parsing	9	Neural network	Classifier	Classifier	SR	Metric
HMM	HMM	Metric	POS	Classifier	10	RNN	LM	Neural network	Annotation	LSTM
Rightly predicted in 10 tops						7	7	8	4	3
Rightly predicted at rank						1	1	1	1	1