Remote NLP Focused Study Group

Part 1 (2018)
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Old Kaggle comp would be a good idea?

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Looking forward to this!!

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Never used zoom before. Open to it. Can we do video recording, screen sharing in the free version?

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The one downside is, the free session expires IIRC in every 40 minutes. So youā€™d have to re start the call after those intervals

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Yes, the main advantage is, you just join by Zoom ID which is much easier than hangouts. Also doesnā€™t have 10 participant limit. Zoom is limited to 40 mins / session as Sanyam points out. We can do Video Call and Multiple Screen share in Zoom. Donā€™t think we want to record these meetings

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A few meets fall on Monday (for my time region) and Iā€™ll be attending college during those durations. So recorded sessions would be awesome for me to watch the discussions later and itā€™d be cool for others too/later re-watch for others.
I think anyone attending the call could leave a screen recorder on and that would do it? (If it sounds like a good idea)

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Some of us have paid Zoom account and only the host is required to have a paid account to actually run a big meeting.

I can host and share the recording after the call for example.

Also: Iā€™m in, Iā€™ll check in on Doodle :wink:

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Interested.

1, I would like to do NLP in Malayalam - a south Indian language, which is a low resource language, also a high agglutinative. So, I would like to hear your experience in solving NLP in similar languages (like Turkish, Finnish, German etc)

2, Since I have very limited language resource for Malayalam, I would like to implement the architecture mentioned in this paper - Unsupervised Machine Translation Using Monolingual Corpora Only. I hope, somebody can help me on this.

Jamsheer

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Iā€™m in as well! Great idea for a focus group.

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Iā€™m in

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Iā€™m in :four_leaf_clover:

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Yes interested

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Iā€™m in. And my vote is also for zoom. Much more stable than Google Hangouts.

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Thanks for the initiative

Can anyone here recommend any readings or videos for NLP fundamentals that have helped you?

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This set of stanford lectures is also not bad, though it doesnā€™t really represent state of the art, but it lays a good foundation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6397E4B26D00A269

Also, highly recommended for the basic concepts is The NLTK Book - now updated for python 3

For some hands-on coding tutorials Iā€™d recommend:

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Thanks a lot!

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itā€™s awesome to see folks speaking different languages - this would bring an interesting perspective to the NLP study - i love languages and know some like Russian, Hebrew and a bit of French - always wanted to research how to convey humor and sarcasm across different languagesā€¦ hope NLP would help in this regardā€¦

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i liked this a lot:

A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing

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Do check out the sarcasm corpus here - https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05579
thanks for that link!

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yes, I am interested