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06 Sep

Alexa, Think In French: ML Finds A Crucial Link Between Culture And Language

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“Researchers used machine learning to create the first large-scale, data-driven study to illuminate how culture affects the meanings of words.” Human language does great injustice in representing the mysterious capabilities of the brain. Nevertheless, it serves as an inexpensive yardstick to measure thoughts and intelligence. If this is remotely true and if we are serious…

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05 Sep

Machines Might Not Mind Your Accent Anymore

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For speech recognition systems, a change in the accent can be confusing. Words under the influence of local languages sound different and a typical homepod device can mistake an Asian speaking English or even something as native as a thick Irish accent. Deep Learning algorithms are the work horses behind these devices. The training data…

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14 Aug

Meet ViLBERT, The Task-Agnostic Model Inspired From BERT For Vision Grounding

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Computer and human interaction are one of the crucial reasons for the rapid evolution of emerging technologies. In this domain, artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) is helping to bridge the gap between all these tasks. There has been considerable research into systems that mine images or other visual backgrounds and are able to…

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30 Jul

Filling The Fluency Gap With Long-Form Question Answering Models

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Most of the modern day NLP applications are deployed for chatbots, which is a conversational task involving questions which require mostly one word answers. This makes open-domain question answering (QA) a crucial benchmarking task in natural language understanding (NLU).  AI researchers and linguists have been collaborating to figure out a way to supplement the pursuit…

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