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Student Perspectives on Applying to NLP PhD Programs

nlp, phd, research, applications, advice

This post was written by: Akari Asai, John Hewitt, Sidd Karamcheti, Kalpesh Krishna, Nelson Liu, Roma Patel, and Nicholas Tomlin. Thanks to our amazing survey respondents: Akari Asai, Aishwarya Kamath,...

Software Archaeology: Re-generating the CoNLL 2000 Chunking Data

research, tooling, tutorial, open source, software archaeology, nlp

I've been using the data from the CoNLL 2000 shared task on syntactic chunking for some ongoing work, but the original dataset is tiny by modern standards. The train set...

Extracting last timestep outputs from PyTorch RNNs

research, tooling, tutorial, machine learning, nlp, pytorch

Here's some code I've been using to extract the last hidden states from an RNN with variable length input....

Paraphrase Identification Models in Tensorflow

tensorflow, machine learning, open source, python, nlp, paraphrase-identification

I've been loosely hacking on the Quora Question Pairs dataset in my free time to get some more experience working with vanilla Tensorflow for NLP in a practical setting. Yesterday,...