Trends in Natural Language Processing: ACL 2019 In Review
Following an eventful week at ACL 2019, I summarize key trends and takeaways to look for in NLP.
What K-Means
In which we investigate K-means clustering, a common unsupervised clustering technique for analyzing data.
Recurrent Neural Networks
I describe recurrent neural networks, a deep learning technique geared for tasks such as natural language processing.
Dance Dance Convolution
We discuss convolutional neural networks, a deep learning model inspired by the human visual system that has rocked the state-of-the-art in computer vision tasks.
Neural Network Grab Bag
We investigate a motley of interesting properties and goodies of neural networks.
Deep Dive Into Neural Networks
We begin a deep dive into deep learning by investigating feedforward neural networks.
Basics of Support Vector Machines
We discuss support vector machines, a very powerful and versatile machine learning model.
Why So Naive, Bayes?
I describe Naive Bayes, a commonly-used generative model for a variety of classification tasks.
Introduction to Logistic Regression
I describe logistic-regression, one of the cornerstone algorithms of the modern-day machine learning toolkit.
Fundamentals of Linear Regression
I describe the basics of linear regression, one of the most common and widely used machine learning techniques.
Transformers: Attention in Disguise
We discuss the Transformer, a purely attention-based architecture that is more performant, more efficient, and more parallelizable than recurrent network-based models.
Deep Contextualized Word Representations with ELMo
I describe ELMo, a recently released set of neural word representations that are pushing the state-of-the-art in natural language processing pretraining methodology.
Fundamental Deep Learning Algorithms To Learn
A discussion of fundamental deep learning algorithms people new to the field should learn along with a recommended course of study.
Why All The Excitement About Artificial Intelligence
Given all the recent buzz around artificial intelligence, I discuss three reasons for why we are seeing such widespread interest in the field today.
Being a Good Machine Learning Engineer/Data Scientist
A discussion of the most important skills necessary for being an effective machine learning engineer or data scientist.
Review of SIGDial/SemDial 2017
Following my attendance at the 18th Annual Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, I summarize the most promising directions for future dialogue research, as gleaned from discussions with other researchers at the conference.