Science should be open
WELCOME TO NLP DISCUSSION CLUB
ITMO University x Zoom
HAVE A NICE DAY!
Nice to meet you! I am the creator and leader of NLP Discussion Club. My name is Victoria Firsanova, I am Saint Petersburg State Universoty master student. I study computational linguistics, attended Summer School of Machine Learning at Skoltech, Fall School of Formal Semantics and Formal Syntax HSE, Dialogue 2020 and AINL 2020 conferences.
I am passionate about machine learning, and work on applying AI techniques for text classification, text generation, building language models and chatbots. I can always help, share sources on NLP and ML, and I am open for collaborative projects.
Science should be open
Our mission is to share experience and knowledge
ARCHIVE OF SEASON 1
MACHINE TRANSLATION
Our participants made presentations on articles about modern approaches towards machine translation. As a part of a seminar, we have discussed the hybrid neural machine translation architecture, made several experiments with MT systems, discussed weaknesses and strengths of statistical and neural approaches, and observed a couple of fun and unusual cases.
ML PRACTICUM
During the first NLP Discussion Club season, we had several machine learning practicums. The participants had a chance to built LSTM for text generation, fine-tune GPT-2 language model, look through the process of building a CNN binary classifier, and try using transformers for text summarization and masked language modelling.
TRANSFER LEARNING
Several seminars were devoted to one of the most powerful NLP techniques, transfer learning. The participants discussed the principles of work of attention mechanisms, the architecture of mighty transformers, tried using models of transfer learning to solve various NLP tasks and implemented transfer learning methods in their own scientific projects.
FORMAL SEMANTICS & FORMAL SYNTAX
Several seminars were devoted to linguistic approaches that found implementation in NLP. The participants discussed Chomskyian grammar, LFG and HPSG, Meaning <-> Text model, Montague semantics, theoretical concepts of Frege and Barth... As a result, we have launched free literature exchange online: the participants have decided to share the output data of relevant theoretical sources.