Modern NLP for Pre-Modern Practitioners

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Abstract

"Transformers"? "BERT"? "ELMo"? What do NLP researchers actually do other than give things childish names? In this talk I'll discuss the kinds of problems NLP researchers are thinking about, explain their newest and hottest breakthroughs, and give you some ideas as to how you can incorporate these concepts and models into your work.

Speaker: Joel Grus

Senior Research Engineer @allen_ai

Joel Grus is a research engineer at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, where he works on AllenNLP, a deep learning framework for AI researchers. He wrote the beloved O'Reilly book Data Science from Scratch and the beloved blog post "Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow". In his spare time he does stand-up comedy and makes livecoding videos. Oh, and he doesn't like notebooks.