On People…

This comprehensive report details the current state of nerual machine translation (NMT) — Link

In this interesting Twitter thread Sebastian Ruder discusses important questions about NLP progress and how it compared to computer vision (CV) — Link

How Ashton Kutcher and company plans to use NLP for fighting child sex trafficking — Link

A Telegram channel to discuss NLP research, papers, and ideas about NLP — Link

On Education and Research…

Paper introduces concept of “Group Normalization” an effective alternative to batch normalization, an important technique in deep learning — Link

Washington University (in St. Louis) Course T81–558: Applications of Deep Neural Networks (includes Jupyter notebooks as well) — Link

An interesting paper that introduces a model for representing snippets of code as continuous distributed vectors (code2vec) — Link

This paper shows a comparison between recurrent vs. non-recurrent models for several NLP tasks — Link

Article from Georgia Tech on “Learning to represent words by how they’re spelled” — Link

Paper introduces a “new language modeling paradigm that has the ability to perform both prediction and moderation of information flow at multiple granularities” — Link

On Code and Data…

TextDistance — A python library for comparing distance btween two or more sequences, implements various algorithms such as Hamming, Jaccard index, etc. — Link

DL-Text repository containing code on how to pre-process textual data for deep learning models (Keras, Tensroflow) — Link

Repository containing many hand-on tutorials about simple tasks used in NLP — Link

DataTurks offers several open datasets — check them out — Link

On Industry…

Tensorflow anounces Tensorflow.js, a Web-GL accelerated, browser-based Javascript library for training and deploying ML models on the web; other announcements were made as well — Link

Linguamatics is a library that offers tools for text-based drug discovery and exploration — Link

Google presents Google Text-to-Speech, which is powered by DeepMind WaveNet — Link

Apple works to make Siri better through NLP technology — Link

Find out how Tumi is using AI and NLP for ad targeting — Link

Worthy Mentions…

The Wild Week in AI (Issue #83) — Link

Natural Language Processing News (Issue #19) — Link