transfer learning 10 Exciting Ideas of 2018 in NLP This post gathers 10 ideas that I found exciting and impactful this year—and that we'll likely see more of in the future. For each idea, it highlights 1-2 papers that execute them well.
semi-supervised learning An overview of proxy-label approaches for semi-supervised learning While unsupervised learning is still elusive, researchers have made a lot of progress in semi-supervised learning. This post focuses on a particular promising category of semi-supervised learning methods that assign proxy labels to unlabelled data, which are used as targets for learning.