Table 24.

Predictions for the next 5 years (2021–2025).

Rank	Observed 2019	Observed 2020	Prediction 2021	Prediction 2022	Prediction 2023	Prediction 2024	Prediction 2025
1	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset	Dataset
2	Embedding	Embedding	Embedding	Embedding	BERT	BERT	BERT
3	Encoder	BERT	BERT	BERT	Embedding	Embedding	Embedding
4	LSTM	Annotation	Encoder	Annotation	Encoder	Annotation	Transformer
5	Decoder	Encoder	Transformer	Encoder	Transformer	Transformer	Encoder
6	LM	LM	LM	transformer	LM	Encoder	LM
7	Metric	Transformer	Annotation	LM	Annotation	LM	Annotation
8	BERT	SR	Metric	Metric	Metric	Metric	Metric
9	SR	Metric	SR	SR	SR	SR	SR
10	Annotation	LSTM	Decoder	Decoder	Decoder	Annotator	Decoder

Predictions are marked in green.