Welcome to the 11th Issue of the NLP Newsletter! Here is this week’s notable NLP news!

On People…

A great roundup of the talk delivered by Rachel Thomas discussing the accessibility in AI at Stanford — Link

Important talk on “Natural Language Understanding: Foundations and State-of-the-Art” — Link

Lila Ibrahim is DeepMind’s new chief operating officer — Link

Emotion Recognition in Context — Link

On Education and Research…

An interesting paper on generating images from scene graphs using graph convolution and GANs — Link

Another interesting research by AI2 on “Scripts to Compositions to Videos” — Link

NLP research discusses the possibility of predicting Twitter user socioeconomic attributes — Link

Paper discusses a novel method for understanding online hate speech — Link

NLP vs NLU: What’s the difference? — Link

On Code and Data…

DeepSuperLearner — an implementation of the deep ensemble methods for classification problems — Link

Dataset release — Recorded Debating Dataset with 60 speeches (audio + ASR & human transcripts) — Link

Building convolutional neural nets (CNNs) in PyTorch — Link

On Industry…

Semantris — word association game powered by NLP and machine learning — Link

Data scientist gives very useful tips on how to build a profile and prepare for the first data science job — Link

AlterEgo transcribe words users “speak silently”; could have major applications in NLP research — Link

Google paper on “Exploring the limits of Language Modeling” — Link

A non-NLP application of word2vec — Link

Quotes of the Day

I had to feature one of these here ;)

Visualizations of the Day

AI Evolution

AlpahGo Zero Cheat Sheet — Link

Worthy Mentions…

Sperichal CNNs — novel method for building convolutional neural networks — Link

Interesting blog post discussing lessons learned in reproducing a deep reinforcement learning paper — Link

Cool blog post discussing ways to make the most out of Jupyter notebooks — Link