The Batch: NLP Special Issue! Powerful techniques from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce
Natural Language Processing

The Batch: NLP Special Issue! Powerful techniques from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce

I’m thrilled to announce our new Natural Language Processing Specialization! Courses 1 and 2 are available on Coursera. We expect to release Courses 3 and 4 soon.

June 17, 202016 min read
The Batch: NLP Special Issue! Powerful techniques from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce
Natural Language Processing

The Batch: NLP Special Issue! Powerful techniques from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce

I’m thrilled to announce our new Natural Language Processing Specialization! Courses 1 and 2 are available on Coursera. We expect to release Courses 3 and 4 soon.

June 17, 202016 min read
Introducing the Natural Language Processing Specialization
Natural Language Processing

Introducing the Natural Language Processing Specialization

I’m thrilled to announce our new Natural Language Processing Specialization! Courses 1 and 2 are available on Coursera. We expect to release Courses 3 and 4 soon. NLP is reshaping daily life.

June 17, 20201 min read
Introducing the Natural Language Processing Specialization
Natural Language Processing

Introducing the Natural Language Processing Specialization

I’m thrilled to announce our new Natural Language Processing Specialization! Courses 1 and 2 are available on Coursera. We expect to release Courses 3 and 4 soon. NLP is reshaping daily life.

June 17, 20201 min read
Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector
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Outing Hidden Hatred: How Facebook built a hate speech detector

Facebook uses automated systems to block hate speech, but hateful posts can slip through when seemingly benign words and pictures combine to create a nasty message. The social network is tackling this problem by enhancing AI’s ability to recognize context.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
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Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.
Natural Language Processing

Choosing Words Carefully: BLUERT trains language models to be better translators.

The words “big” and “large” have similar meanings, but they aren’t always interchangeable: You wouldn’t refer to an older, male sibling as your “large brother” (unless you meant to be cheeky). Choosing among words with similar meanings is critical in language tasks like translation.

June 17, 20202 min read
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
Natural Language Processing

Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots

Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.

May 27, 20202 min read
Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots
Natural Language Processing

Toward Open-Domain Chatbots: Meena Scores High on System for Grading NLP Chatbots

Progress in language models is spawning a new breed of chatbots and, unlike their narrow-domain forebears, they have the gift of gab. Recent research tests the limits of conversational AI.

May 27, 20202 min read
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Natural Language Processing

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

May 20, 20202 min read
AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.
Natural Language Processing

AI’s Got Talent: The AI Song Contest replaced Eurovision during the pandemic.

Music that features a “singing” koala bear took the prize in one of Europe’s highest-profile AI competitions yet. A team of Australian programmers, designers, and musicians won the inaugural AI Song Contest with a koala-tinged track called “Beautiful the World.”

May 20, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
Natural Language Processing

Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.
Natural Language Processing

Listening to the Brain: NLP researchers used RNNs to translate brain waves into text.

AI has added an unlikely language to its catalog of translation capabilities: brain waves. Joseph Makin led a group from the University of California San Francisco to render a person’s neural signals as English text while the person while the person read a sentence aloud.

May 13, 20202 min read
Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.
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Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.

A new algorithm can triage programming bugs, highlighting dangerous flaws. Microsoft researchers developed a machine learning model that reads the titles of bug reports and recognizes those describing flaws that compromise security.

April 29, 20202 min read
Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.
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Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.

A new algorithm can triage programming bugs, highlighting dangerous flaws. Microsoft researchers developed a machine learning model that reads the titles of bug reports and recognizes those describing flaws that compromise security.

April 29, 20202 min read

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