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The three levels of NLP for your business

NLP People

In the past years, the tech world has seen a surge of NLP applications in various areas including adtech, publishing, customer service and market intelligence. To put it simply – NLP is wildly adopted with wildly variable success (let’s assume a working definition of success in terms of quality and ROI).

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Peer Review Has Improved My Papers

Ehud Reiter

BLEU survey: better presentation of results Another example is my 2018 paper which presented a structured survey of the validity of BLEU; this was published in Computational Linguistics journal. Motivated by the structured surveys I had seen in medicine, I decided to the same thing in NLP.

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The Seven Trends in Machine Translation for 2019

NLP People

Hundreds of researchers, students, recruiters, and business professionals came to Brussels this November to learn about recent advances, and share their own findings, in computational linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). BERT is a new milestone in NLP. 7-Have we Finally Solved Machine Translation?

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The State of Transfer Learning in NLP

Sebastian Ruder

This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP. In the span of little more than a year, transfer learning in the form of pretrained language models has become ubiquitous in NLP and has contributed to the state of the art on a wide range of tasks. However, transfer learning is not a recent phenomenon in NLP.

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Instruction fine-tuning for FLAN T5 XL with Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon EBS is well suited to both database-style applications that rely on random reads and writes, and to throughput-intensive applications that perform long, continuous reads and writes. """, """ Amazon Comprehend uses natural language processing (NLP) to extract insights about the content of documents.

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ML and NLP Research Highlights of 2021

Sebastian Ruder

2021) 2021 saw many exciting advances in machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). If CNNs are pre-trained the same way as transformer models, they achieve competitive performance on many NLP tasks [28].   Popularized by GPT-3 [32] , prompting has emerged as a viable alternative input format for NLP models.

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The Geographic Diversity of NLP Conferences

Marek Rei

The growth of interest in NLP technology, fuelled largely by investment in AI applications, has been accompanied by unprecedented expansion of the preeminent NLP conferences: ACL, NAACL and EMNLP in particular. We illustrate the count of authors per country for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING and CoNLL 2018 with the chloropleth maps below.

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