Online Meetup: Active Learning for NLP [UTC+ edition]

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Hi everyone!

We hope you're doing well. Sydney NLP hasn't gone anywhere, so it's time to proudly present our next event - on active learning in NLP with Rob Munro. Rob is a friend of Sydney NLP who has presented to us before and always has interesting things to say, so hopefully you can all join. If you're interested in asking a question, there will be a forum available during the event for that in the Zoom call - we'll see any questions you post. The password to the Zoom event will be sent on the day of the event itself, look forward to seeing you there!

The Sydney NLP Team

Robert Munro: Active Learning for Natural Language Processing

SUMMARY
More than 90% of machine learning applications improve with human feedback. For example, a model that classifying news articles into pre-defined topics has been trained on 1000s of examples where humans have manually annotated the topics. However, if there are tens of millions of news articles, it might not be feasible to manually annotate even 1% of them. If we only sample randomly, we will mostly get popular topics like "politics" that the machine learning model can already identify accurately. So, we need to be smarter about how we sample. This talk is about "Active Learning", the process of deciding what raw data is the most optimal for human review, covering: Uncertainty Sampling; Diversity Sampling; and some advanced methods like Active Transfer Learning.

BIO
Robert Munro has worked as a leader at several Silicon Valley machine learning companies and also led AWS's first Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation solutions. Robert is the author of Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning, covering practical methods for Active Learning, Transfer Learning, and Annotation. Robert organizes Bay Area NLP, the world's largest community of Language Technology professionals. Robert is also a disaster responder and is currently helping with the response to COVID-19.