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Major trends in NLP: a review of 20 years of ACL research

NLP People

The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) is starting this week in Florence, Italy. We took the opportunity to review major research trends in the animated NLP space and formulate some implications from the business perspective. But what is the substance behind the buzz?

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Explosion in 2019: Our Year in Review

Explosion

Jan 15: The year started out with us as guests on the NLP Highlights podcast , hosted by Matt Gardner and Waleed Ammar of Allen AI. In the interview, Matt and Ines talked about Prodigy , where training corpora come from and the challenges of annotating data for an NLP system – with some ideas about how to make it easier. ?

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Story time: How I started coding

Ines Montani

I spent hours writing, designing and printing my own magazines, and I dreamt about one day becoming a journalist or book author. Together with a friend I launched an online magazine about our favourite indie music. My favourite programs were Creative Writer and Fine Artist , essentially the 90s kids versions of InDesign and Photoshop.