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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).

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Explosion in 2019: Our Year in Review

Explosion

As 2019 draws to a close and we step into the 2020s, we thought we’d take a look back at the year and all we’ve accomplished. was released – our first major upgrade to Prodigy for 2019. Sep 15: Adriane Boyd makes up the second spaCy developer team hire in 2019. Got a question? ✨ Feb 18: Finally in February, Prodigy v1.7.0

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The State of Multilingual AI

Sebastian Ruder

Developing models that work for more languages is important in order to offset the existing language divide and to ensure that speakers of non-English languages are not left behind, among many other reasons. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 (pp. In Proceedings of NAACL 2019.

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2022: We reviewed this year’s AI breakthroughs

Applied Data Science

In our review of 2019 we talked a lot about reinforcement learning and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), in 2020 we focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and algorithmic bias, in 202 1 Transformers stole the spotlight. As humans we do not know exactly how we learn language: it just happens.

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ACL 2022 Highlights

Sebastian Ruder

This was my first in-person conference since ACL 2019. This is also my first conference highlights post since NAACL 2019. The initiative focuses on making Computational Linguistics (CL) research accessible in 60 languages and across all modalities, including text/speech/sign language translation, closed captioning, and dubbing.

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A Gentle Introduction to GPTs

Mlearning.ai

You don’t need to have a PhD to understand the billion parameter language model GPT is a general-purpose natural language processing model that revolutionized the landscape of AI. GPT-3 is a autoregressive language model created by OpenAI, released in 2020 . What is GPT-3?

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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. 2017 ) and pretrained language models ( Peters et al., 2019 ) of recent years. A taxonomy that highlights the variations can be seen below: A taxonomy for transfer learning in NLP ( Ruder, 2019 ). 2019 ; Artetxe and Schwenk, 2019 ; Mulcaire et al.,

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