Joint PyData Hamburg & Hamburg NLP January Meetup

We are delighted to start the new year of NLP Meetups with an exiting joint event together with PyData Hamburg (https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/PyData-Hamburg)!

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18:15 (Virtual) Doors Open + Networking

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# (Talk 1) Phu Mon Htut : Transfer Learning in NLP: Tools and Tips

"In recent years, pre-trained language models, such as Google's BERT, combined with transfer learning methods have enabled us to achieve the state-of-the-art in many natural language processing tasks. In this talk, I'll give an overview of the pre-trained language models and transfer learning methods in NLP. I'll then introduce open-source tools designed for transfer learning of NLP tasks and tips on using them."

• Phu is a Ph.D. candidate at New York University working on applying transfer learning methods to NLP problems and linguistic analysis of these methods for interpretability.

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# (Talk 2) Sebastian Nichtern & Adrian Baetu: NLP based Customer Service Automation at scale

"We all hear about the great revolution of AI and NLP ahead. Still, we see most companies struggle leveraging the benefits of such technologies. In this talk we will take you on a difficult but successful journey to Hapag-Lloyd’s first productive NLP solution, that is currently allocating over 20.000 mails every single day."

• Sebastian is a Senior Data Scientist working for Ginkgo Analytics as a consultant and specialist in applied Machine Learning.

• Adrian is a team lead in the AI Center of Excellence Hapag-Lloyd that is currently being established in Gdansk.

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Open Discussion + Networking until ca. 20:30

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Still, due to Corona, this an online only event. Since the "virtual seats" are limited (300 joint seats with PyData), there are some things we would like you to respect:

• RSVP on meetup.com please and do take the time to cancel if you cannot join.
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• Please check in a few minutes before the event starts so we can support you with questions about access.

(This event will likely be recorded. If you want to stay anonymous please make sure to turn off your camera and use an alias for your screen name.)