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NLP has seen rapid advances in recent years. With some of the sharpest minds in data science presenting, get the latest insights, natural language processing training, trends, and discoveries in data science languages, tools, topics – and beyond.
Connect with some of the most innovative people and ideas in the world of data science, while learning first-hand from core practitioners and contributors. Learn about the latest advancements and trends in NLP, including pre-trained models, with use-cases focusing on deep learning, speech-to text, and semantic search.
Some of Our Past NLP Speakers
Jacob Andreas, PhD
Jacob Andreas is the X Consortium Assistant Professor at MIT. His research aims to build intelligent systems that can communicate effectively using language and learn from human guidance. Jacob earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, his M.Phil. from Cambridge (where he studied as a Churchill scholar) and his B.S. from Columbia. As a researcher at Microsoft Semantic Machines, he founded the language generation team and helped develop core pieces of the technology that powers conversational interaction in Microsoft Outlook. He has been the recipient of Samsung’s AI Researcher of the Year award, MIT’s Kolokotrones teaching award, and paper awards at NAACL and ICML.
Interpreting Features in Deep Networks(Tutorial)
Iryna Gurevych, PhD
Iryna Gurevych (PhD 2003, U. Duisburg-Essen, Germany) is professor of Computer Science and director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Technical University (TU) of Darmstadt in Germany. Her main research interests are in machine learning for large-scale language understanding and text semantics. Iryna’s work has received numerous awards. Examples are the ACL fellow award 2020 and the first Hessian LOEWE Distinguished Chair award (2,5 mil. Euro) in 2021. Iryna is co-director of the NLP program within ELLIS, a European network of excellence in machine learning. She is currently the president of the Association of Computational Linguistics. In 2022, she received an ERC Advanced Grant to support her vision for the next big step in NLP “InterText – Modeling Text as a Living Object in a Cross-Document Context”.
SQuARE: Towards Multi-Domain and Few-Shot Collaborating Question Answering Agents(Talk)
Dan Roth, PhD
Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, a VP/Distinguished Scientist at Amazon AWS, and a Fellow of the AAAS, the ACM, AAAI, and the ACL.
In 2017 Roth was awarded the John McCarthy Award, the highest award the AI community gives to mid-career AI researchers. Roth was recognized “for major conceptual and theoretical advances in the modeling of natural language understanding, machine learning, and reasoning.”
Roth has published broadly in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning, and learning theory, and has developed advanced machine learning based tools for natural language applications that are being used widely. Until February 2017 Roth was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Roth has been involved in several startups; most recently he was a co-founder and chief scientist of NexLP, a startup that leverages the latest advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Cognitive Analytics, and Machine Learning in the legal and compliance domains. NexLP was acquired by Reveal in 2020. Prof. Roth received his B.A Summa cum laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.
Panos Alexopoulos, PhD
Panos Alexopoulos has been working since 2006 at the intersection of data, semantics, and software, building intelligent systems that deliver value to business and society. Born and raised in Athens, Greece, he currently works as Head of Ontology at Textkernel, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he leads a team of Data Professionals in developing and delivering a large cross-lingual Knowledge Graph in the HR and Recruitment domain. Panos holds a PhD in Knowledge Engineering and Management from National Technical University of Athens, and has published more than 60 papers at international conferences, journals and books. He is the author of the book “Semantic Modeling for Data – Avoiding Pitfalls and Breaking Dilemmas” (O’Reilly, 2020), and a regular speaker and trainer in both academic and industry venues.
Julien Simon
Julien is currently Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face. He’s recently spent 6 years at Amazon Web Services where he was the Global Technical Evangelist for AI & Machine Learning. Prior to joining AWS, Julien served for 10 years as CTO/VP Engineering in large-scale startups.
Hyper-productive NLP with Hugging Face Transformers(Workshop)
Chandra Khatri
Chandra Khatri is the Chief Scientist and Head of AI at Got It AI, wherein, his team is transforming AI space by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to deliver the world’s first fully autonomous Conversational AI system. Under his leadership, Got It AI is democratizing Conversational AI and related ecosystems through automation. Prior to Got-It, Chandra was leading various AI applied and research groups at Uber, Amazon Alexa and eBay.
At Uber, he was leading Conversational AI, Multi-modal AI, and Recommendation Systems. At Amazon he was the founding member of the Alexa Prize Competition and Alexa AI, wherein he was leading the R&D and got the opportunity to significantly advance the field of Conversational AI, particularly Open-domain Dialog Systems, which is considered as the holy-grail of Conversational AI and is one of the open-ended problems in AI. And at eBay he was driving NLP, Deep Learning, and Recommendation Systems related applied research projects.
He graduated from Georgia Tech with a specialization in Deep Learning in 2015 and holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India. His current areas of research include Artificial and General Intelligence, Democratization of AI, Reinforcement Learning, Language and Multi-modal Understanding, and Introducing Common Sense within Artificial Agents.
Truth Checker: Generative Large Language Models and Hallucinations(Talk)
Moran Beladev
Moran is a machine learning manager at booking.com, researching and developing computer vision and NLP models for the tourism domain. Moran is a Ph.D candidate in information systems engineering at Ben Gurion University, researching NLP aspects in temporal graphs. Previously worked as a Data Science Team Leader at Diagnostic Robotics, building ML solutions for the medical domain and NLP algorithms to extract clinical entities from medical visit summaries.
Leverage Reviews Data for Multi Label Topics Classification in Booking.com(Talk)
Leonardo De Marchi
Leonardo De Marchi holds a Master in Artificial intelligence and has worked as a Data Scientist in the sports world, with clients such as the New York Knicks. He now works in Thomson Reuters as VP of Labs, and also provides consultancy and training for small and large companies. His previous experience includes being Head of Data Science and Analytics in Bumble, the largest dating site with over 500 million users, heading the team through acquisition and an IPO.
Daniel Whitenack, PhD
Daniel Whitenack (aka Data Dan) is a Ph.D. trained data scientist working with SIL International on NLP and speech technology for local languages in emerging markets. He has more than ten years of experience developing and deploying machine learning systems at scale. Daniel co-hosts the Practical AI podcast, has spoken at conferences around the world (Applied Machine Learning Days, O’Reilly AI, QCon AI, GopherCon, KubeCon, and more), and occasionally teaches data science/analytics at Purdue University.
Modern NLP: Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Prompt Engineering, and Human Feedback(Workshop)
Haritz Puerto
Haritz Puerto is a Ph.D. candidate in Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing at UKP Lab in TU Darmstadt, supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych. His main research interests are reasoning for Question Answering and Graph Neural Networks. Previously, he worked at the Coleridge Initiative, where he co-organized the Kaggle Competition Show US the Data. He got his master’s degree from the School of Computing at KAIST, where he was a research assistant at IR&NLP Lab and was advised by Prof. Sung-Hyon Myaeng.
SQuARE: Towards Multi-Domain and Few-Shot Collaborating Question Answering Agents(Talk)
Matt Bezdek, PhD
Matt Bezdek is a Senior Data Scientist at Elder Research. In his work, he empowers commercial clients to make better business decisions, with expertise in machine learning, forecast modeling, natural language processing, and visualization. He has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Stony Brook University and has conducted neuroimaging research at Georgia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis.
Topic Modeling using pre-trained large language model embeddings(Talk)
Freddy Boulton
Freddy Boulton started his career as a data scientist for Nielsen where he built predictive models of television viewing behavior to make television ratings more accurate. This gave him a first hand-view of one of the biggest challenges faced by industry data scientists – being able to easily communicate and share machine learning models with stakeholders. He is currently solving that problem by working on Gradio, an open-source python library that lets data scientists create fully interactive demos of machine learning models with just a few lines of code.
A Practical Tutorial on Building Machine Learning Demos with Gradio(Workshop)
Connor Shorten, PhD
Connor Shorten is a Research Scientist at Weaviate, an Open-Source Vector Search Database. Connor has had a role in the development of Ref2Vec, Hybrid Search, Generative Search, Weaviate’s Pipe API, and Re-Ranking. Connor has also hosted 34 episodes of the Weaviate podcast featuring guests from OpenAI, Cohere, You.com, MosaicML, Jina AI, Deepset, Neural Magic and many others! Connor also co-hosts Weaviate meetups in Boston and New York City! Prior to Weaviate, Connor has earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University. Connor’s Ph.D. was primarily focusing on Data Augmentation in Deep Learning and Applications of Deep Learning for COVID-19. Connor’s publication “A survey on image data augmentation in deep learning” has achieved over 5,000 citations.
Building Recommendation Systems(Workshop)
Benjamin Batorsky, PhD
Ben is a Senior Data Scientist at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University. He obtained his Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins and his PhD in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Since 2014, he has been working in data science for government, academia and the private sector. His major focus has been on Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology and applications. Throughout his career, he has pursued opportunities to contribute to the larger data science community. He has presented his work at conferences, published articles, taught courses in data science and NLP, and is co-organizer of the Boston chapter of PyData. He also contributes to volunteer projects applying data science tools for public good.
Bagging to BERT – A Tour of Applied NLP(Workshop)
Gary Nakanelua
Gary Nakanelua is a professional technologist with over 17 years of experience and the author of Experiment or Expire. Gary is the Managing Director of Innovation at Blueprint, a data intelligence company based in Bellevue, WA. He’s responsible for the experimentation and creation of Blueprint’s transformative solutions and accelerators. With his diverse background, Gary brings a different perspective to problems that businesses are facing today to create quantifiable solutions driven through a high level of collaborative thought processing, strategic planning, and cannibalization.
Streamlining Your Streaming Analytics with Delta Lake & Rust(Talk)
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Topics
Natural Language Processing
NLP Transformers
Pre-trained Models
Text Analytics
Natural Language Understanding
Sentiment Analysis
Natural Language Generation
Speech Recognition
Named Entity Extraction
Models
BERT
XLNet
GPT-2
Transformers
Word2Vec
Deep Learning Models
RNN & LSTM
Machine Learning Models
ULMFiT
Transfer Learning
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Tensorflow 2.0
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AllenNLP
Stanford CoreNLP
Keras
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