Data Science

One for the Road ACL 2020 coming in July to a computer near you. Papers and accepted demos/frameworks are already on display: System Demonstrations ADVISER: A Toolkit for Developing Multi-modal, Multi-domain and Socially-engaged Conversational Agents Chia-Yu Li, Daniel Ortega, Dirk Väth, Florian Lux, Lindsey Vanderlyn, Maximilian Schmidt, Michael Neumann, Moritz Völkel, Pavel Denisov, Sabrina Jenne,…

Traveler And we’re back. We’ve released another update to the Big Bad NLP Database! Another 50 datasets taking us past 400 total and yet, still so many left to go. I would like to thank all contributors: Martin Schmitt, Rachel Bawden, Devamanyu Hazarika, Panagiotis Simakis, and Andrew Thompson. Oh, someone gifted me an award on…

Last week, so much happened. ICLR was a great digital turnout and there were tons of papers/code drops from the NLP community. As a result, this week’s newsletter is loaded to the gills. And just when you thought we could rest from AI conferences… Facebook be like: Facebook Research at ICASSP 2020 Facebook AI researchers…

Last week was a whirlwind. Thank you for your support. 🤯 If you’re not in the loop, last week we released the Super Duper NLP Repo! A collection of 100+ Colab notebooks using models to perform various NLP tasks. Periodically, we’ll continue to update this repo as we’ve done with the Big Bad NLP Database.…

It Rages that Way Onward, we go. In last week’s column, I posed a problem w/r/t the problem of complexity in sentiment analysis. In our example: Gold is up 6% in the pre-market as the downward pressure of the coronavirus outbreak weighs on equity stocks. The consequence of when dealing with complex systems, especially in…

Beyond Here Lies Nothing… As you may have guessed, current laws that govern simple systems (i.e. Newtonian physics) allow for the observation of independent variables. That is, if you were to observe a variable in this so-called simple system, information isn’t lost from other variables in the system of observation. Observing the trajectory of Venus…

Dacă nu riști nu câștigi If you are wondering what the subtitle means, it’s Romanian. It means this: via GIPHY How was your week? Last week we updated The Big Bad NLP Database once more, thank you to Ayman Alhelbawy for contributing! [UPDATE] Big Bad NLP Database 😎 We've updated the database with 25 new…

And… We’re back! How was your week? Last week was intensely fun and adventurous, many new datasets, studies, and NLP research were shot out of a cannon! Also in NYC, the AAAI conference happened. And there, the Turing award winners (LeCun, Bengio, and Hinton) came together for some exciting talks. Yoshua was so excited he…

Big Bad NLP Database Update And… we’re back! How was your week?? We’re continuing our hard work on the NLP Database! During the mid-week, we added 21 datasets and user contribution has helped tremendously, they are mentioned here: We've updated the NLP database! We added 21 new datasets! In addition, we've also added a new…