NLP News

By Sebastian Ruder

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Previous issues

Highlights of EMNLP 2019, Ethics in NLP vol. 2, AI and Journalism

#46 Nov 19, 2019

Deep Learning Indaba, EurNLP, ML echo chamber, Pretrained LMs, Reproducibility papers

#45 Oct 22, 2019

Experimental results and error reporting, Ethics and NLP, Distillation vol. 2, SemEval 2020

#44 Sep 16, 2019

#43

Aug 21, 2019

Bigger vs. smaller models, powerful vs. dumb models – Hi all,The theme of this newsletter are juxtapositions: training ever bigger models (GPT-8 8B) vs. ma
#42

Jul 22, 2019

NLP in Industry, Leaderboard madness, fast.ai NLP, Transfer learning tools – Hi all,This month's newsletter covers some cool examples of how NLP is used in industry, some discuss
#41

Jun 24, 2019

BERT, GPT-2, XLNet, NAACL, ICML, arXiv, EurNLP – Hi all,A lot has been going on in the past month. This newsletter contains new stuff about BERT, GPT-
#40

May 20, 2019

Marvel, Stanford & CMU NLP Playlists, Voynich, Bitter Lesson Vol. 2, ICLR 2019, Dialogue Demos – Hi all,There should be something for everyone in this newsletter. NLP and superheroes team up. We hav
#39

Apr 15, 2019

The Bitter Lesson, How to Write X, ML Events in 2019 – Hi all,This newsletter’s spotlight topics are The Bitter Lesson, How to Write X guides, and ML events
#38

Mar 11, 2019

GPT-2, Sequence generation in arbitrary order – Hi all,This newsletter's spotlight topics are GPT-2, OpenAI's recent language model, and sequence gen
#37

Feb 11, 2019

BERT, Transfer learning for dialogue, Deep Learning SOTA 2019, Gaussian Processes, VI, NLP lesson curricula, fast.ai lessons, AlphaStar, How to manage research teams – Hi all,I hope you've had a good start into 2019! This newsletter covers a ton of material: slides fro
#36

Jan 14, 2019

Challenges in Few-shot learning; 2019 predictions; JAX; Explainable models; MT reading list; Foundations of ML; AI Index 2018; Karen Sparck Jones; Analysis methods survey; ICLR 2019 rejects – Happy 2019 everyone 🎉! May your losses decrease consistently, your models generalize to out-of-domain
#35

Dec 17, 2018

🎅 NeurIPS 2018; The nature of research; Advances in image generation, protein folding, and RL – Happy holiday season wherever you are based! 🎅⛄️🏖😎It's only been a month since the last newsletter, b
#34

Nov 12, 2018

ML on code, Understanding RNNs, Deep Latent Variable Models, Writing Code for NLP Research, Quo vadis, NLP?, Democratizing AI, ML Cheatsheets, Spinning Up in Deep RL, Papers with Code, Unsupervised MT, Multilingual BERT, Graph Networks, AutoML – Hey all,Welcome to this month’s newsletter edition! There's a lot of cool stuff this time, so better
#33

Oct 15, 2018

TensorFlow 2.0, PyToch Dev Conference, DecaNLP, BERT, Annotated Encoder-Decoder, ICLR 2019 reading, fast.ai v1, AllenNLP v0.7, 10 writing tips, AutoML & Maths for ML books, TensorFlow NLP best practices – Hey all,Welcome to this month's newsletter edition, which includes some cool video content about Tens
#32

Sep 17, 2018

Deep Learning Indaba 2018 edition 🌍 – Hey all,I spent the past week at the Deep Learning Indaba 2018 hosted in Stellenbosch in beautiful So
#31

Sep 3, 2018

Fake video, State of ML Code, Notebooks, and Software, Advice for MScing and PhDing, Ada Lovelace, 150+ Best Resources – Hi all,I hope you're all doing well and enjoying your Monday morning. This newsletter features discus
#30

Aug 20, 2018

Learning Meaning in NLP, Recurrence in NNs, Q&A with Yoshua Bengio, ML == pseudo science?, ImageNet < 18mins, Where's Waldo?, Frontiers of NLP – Hi all,This is edition #️⃣3️⃣0️⃣ of this newsletter! This one discusses some super interesting topics
#29

Aug 6, 2018

Future of CV and NLP, Maths (Fields Medal, Maths for ML), AutoML Natural Language, Google Assistant, Cutting through the hype, NALUs – Hi all,Greetings from Ireland ☘️! I actually didn't expect to be thankful for the Irish weather ☔️. D
#28

Jul 23, 2018

ACL 2018, Videos from NAACL 2018 and ICML 2018, Fanatic NMT, MojiTalk, CompareGAN, NLP is fun, Program synthesis, AutoML, DeepStack, Gumbel Softmax – Hi all,It's been a year since the first edition of this newsletter 🎉! Thank you so much for sticking
#27

Jul 9, 2018

RL and teamwork, Tracking the state of AI, Facebook and fake news, Doing research, Conference things – Why did the Bayesian suddenly feel patriotic when he heard fireworks 🎇?He assumed independence.Happy

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