NLP News Cypher | 05.10.20

Author(s): Ricky Costa

Originally published on Towards AI.

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

NLP News Cypher U+007C 05.10.20

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And we’re back. We’ve released another update to the Big Bad NLP Database! Another 50 datasets taking us past 400 total and yet, still so many left to go. I would like to thank all contributors: Martin Schmitt, Rachel Bawden, Devamanyu Hazarika, Panagiotis Simakis, and Andrew Thompson.

Oh, someone gifted me an award on Reddit, not sure what this means. But I have a teddy bear now (it’s the brown looking thing below), it’s called a Hugz award, U+1F937‍U+2642️ Cheers!

Also,U+1F6F8’s continue to exist.

An awesome peep on Reddit showed how they enhanced the video quality of the 3 UFO videos released several weeks ago. I couldn’t see much of a delta in the video quality, but it’s still interesting to know their workflow. Outline below:

Happy Momma’s Day U+1F469‍U+1F466‍U+1F466 !

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FYI, a surprise coming this week, stay tuned!

This Week:

From RoBERTa Import Scratch

InferKit U+007C Bringing AutoML to NLP

Papers w/ Code Has A Paper w/ Code

The Keras Site

TL;DR Summarization

Dataset of the Week: WikiTableQuestions

From RoBERTa Import Scratch

If you want to pre-train a SOTA model like RoBERTa from scratch check out this codebase (also includes fine-tuning)! The blog is really intuitive because there are code blocks annotating the author’s workflow, in addition to a Colab! It goes over data, tokenizers, and model handling.

Colab of the Week:

InferKit U+007C Bringing AutoML to NLP

From the maker of TalkWithTransformer, Adam King shares his latest ML project: InferKit! What is it? For now, it allows you to do state-of-the-art text classification WITHOUT any code, and it’s super simple to use. No need for hyper-parameter tuning, you just drop your CSV in the browser, click train, and InferKit’s cloud architecture does the rest. After training is done, you get an email alert, follow the link and it comes shipped with its own endpoint APIU+1F525U+1F525. I’ve already tried it and it was seamless. Soon, InferKit will also be able to conduct text generation!

FYI, anyone who signs up gets $25 of free credits. Live dangerously, give it a whirl.

App:

Papers w/ Code Has A Paper and Code

A great update from Paperswithcode. Their database now holds over 2,500 leaderboards! In addition, they have a new extraction model, AxCell, that allows you to extract table results from an ML research paper!

Surprise, their model is open-sourced:

The Keras Site

New site for Keras. Not a surprise as Mr. Chollet has recently been dropping gems on Twitter along with many Colab notebooks (I’ve included one below). The site comes with a new batch of guidelines and examples.

Guides:

Site:

Enjoy the neural network hallucinations in this Colab:

TL;DR Summarization

Allen Institute's demo for summarizing computer science research papers is here. In addition, they’ve released SCITLDR, a new dataset with 3,935 TLDRs of author-written summaries. U+1F60E

FYI, on SCITLDR, it outperforms BART! For best results, you can feed it the abstract, intro, and conclusion of your test set. U+1F447

Demo:

Paper:

Dataset of the Week: WikiTableQuestions

What is it?

Dataset is for the task of question answering on a semi-structured HTML table.

Sample:

Where is it?

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