80 - Leaderboards and Science, with Siva Reddy
Originally used to entice fierce competitions in arcade games, leaderboards recently made their way into NLP research circles. Leaderboards could help mitigate some of the problems in how researchers ...
29 Jan 201929min
79 - The glass ceiling in NLP, with Natalie Schluter
In this episode, Natalie Schluter talks to us about a data-driven analysis of career progression of male vs. female researchers in NLP through the lens of mentor-mentee networks based on ~20K papers i...
21 Jan 201926min
78. Where do corpora come from?, with Matt Honnibal and Ines Montani
Most NLP projects rely crucially on the quality of annotations used for training and evaluating models. In this episode, Matt and Ines of Explosion AI tell us how Prodigy can improve data annotation a...
15 Jan 201930min
77. On Writing Quality Peer Reviews, with Noah A. Smith
It's not uncommon for authors to be frustrated with the quality of peer reviews they receive in (NLP) conferences. In this episode, Noah A. Smith shares his advice on how to write good peer reviews. T...
7 Jan 201938min
76 - Increasing In-Class Similarity by Retrofitting Embeddings with Demographics, with Dirk Hovy
EMNLP 2018 paper by Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Improving-Author-Attribute-Prediction-by-Linguistic-Hovy-Fornaciari/71aad8919c864f73108aafd8e926d44e9df51615...
27 Nov 201829min
75 - Reinforcement / Imitation Learning in NLP, with Hal Daumé III
In this episode, we invite Hal Daumé to continue the discussion on reinforcement learning, focusing on how it has been used in NLP. We discuss how to reduce NLP problems into the reinforcement learnin...
21 Nov 201843min
74 - Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet, with Alex Irpan
Blog post by Alex Irpan titled "Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work Yet" https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html In this episode, Alex Irpan talks about limitations of current deep rei...
16 Nov 201840min
73 - Supersense Disambiguation of English Prepositions and Possessives, with Nathan Schneider
ACL 2018 paper by Nathan Schneider, Jena D. Hwang, Vivek Srikumar, Jakob Prange, Austin Blodgett, Sarah R. Moeller, Aviram Stern, Adi Bitan, Omri Abend. In this episode, Nathan discusses how the mean...
13 Nov 201852min
