events
ACL 2022 Highlights
This post discusses my highlights of ACL 2022, including language diversity and multimodality, prompting, the next big ideas and keynotes, my favorite papers, and the hybrid conference experience.
events
Posts discussing highlights of particular events such as conferences and summer schools.
transfer learning
The State of Transfer Learning in NLP
This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP. It highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.
events
EurNLP
The first European NLP Summit (EurNLP) will take place in London on October 11, 2019. It is an opportunity to foster discussion and collaboration between researchers in and around Europe.
events
NAACL 2019 Highlights
This post discusses highlights of NAACL 2019. It covers transfer learning, common sense reasoning, natural language generation, bias, non-English languages, and diversity and inclusion.
events
AAAI 2019 Highlights: Dialogue, reproducibility, and more
This post discusses highlights of AAAI 2019. It covers dialogue, reproducibility, question answering, the Oxford style debate, invited talks, and a diverse set of research papers.
natural language processing
The 4 Biggest Open Problems in NLP
This is the second post based on the Frontiers of NLP session at the Deep Learning Indaba 2018. It discusses 4 major open problems in NLP.
events
EMNLP 2018 Highlights: Inductive bias, cross-lingual learning, and more
This post discusses highlights of EMNLP 2018. It focuses on talks and papers dealing with inductive bias, cross-lingual learning, word embeddings, latent variable models, language models, and datasets.
natural language processing
ACL 2018 Highlights: Understanding Representations and Evaluation in More Challenging Settings
This post discusses highlights of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018). It focuses on understanding representations and evaluating in more challenging scenarios.
natural language processing
Highlights of NAACL-HLT 2018: Generalization, Test-of-time, and Dialogue Systems
This post discusses highlights of the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). It focuses on Generalization, the Test-of-Time awards, and Dialogue Systems.
natural language processing
Highlights of EMNLP 2017: Exciting datasets, return of the clusters, and more
This post discusses highlights of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017). These include exciting datasets, new cluster-based methods, distant supervision, data selection, character-level models, and many more.
meta-learning
Highlights of NIPS 2016: Adversarial learning, Meta-learning, and more
The Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is one of the top ML conferences. This post discusses highlights of NIPS 2016 including GANs, the nuts and bolts of ML, RNNs, improvements to classic algorithms, RL, Meta-learning, and Yann LeCun's infamous cake.
natural language processing
Highlights of EMNLP 2016: Dialogue, deep learning, and more
This post discusses highlights of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2016). These include work on reinforcement learning, dialogue, sequence-to-sequence models, semantic parsing, natural language generation, and many more.