Keynote: Modern NLP for Pre-Modern Practitioners
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.
2019 Tracks
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AI Meets the Physical World
Where AI touches the physical world, think drones, ROS, NVidia, TPU and more.
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Papers in Production: Modern CS in the Real World
Groundbreaking papers make real-world impact.
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Solving Software Engineering Problems with Machine Learning
Interesting machine learning use cases changing how we develop software today, including planned topics touching on infrastructure optimization, developer experience, security, and more.
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Predictive Architectures in the Real World
Case Study focused look at end to end predictive pipelines from places like Salesforce, Uber, Linkedin, & Netflix.
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Sequential Data: Natural Language, Time Series, and Sound
Techniques, practices, and approaches around time series and sequential data. Expect topics including image recognition, NLP/NLU, preprocess, & crunching of related algorithms.
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Deep Learning in Practice
Deep learning use cases around edge computing, deep learning for search, explainability, fairness, and perception.