Sowmya V.B.Lessons from a reproducibility studyTL;DR — We reproduced some of the existing research on keyphrase generation from text and published a paper about our findings with…May 20May 20
Sowmya V.B.Don’t ignore the relatively older language models!TLDR; I compared Flan-T5 series with GPT3.5 and GPT4 on a 6-way topic classification dataset for short social media texts, and the results…Jan 151Jan 151
Sowmya V.B.Reality Check — Natural Language Processing (Part 2)This is a continuation from yesterday’s post summarizing some of the “Reality Check” themed papers from ACL 2023 which is happening next…Jul 7, 2023Jul 7, 2023
Sowmya V.B.Reality Check — Natural Language Processing (Part 1)ACL 2023, NLP’s major annual conference, is happening next week, and has a “theme” track this year, called “Reality Check”. Here is how it…Jul 6, 2023Jul 6, 2023
Sowmya V.B.Making sense of the state of the art in Keyphrase predictionTL;DR: Research papers don’t often report results consistently and it makes comparisons difficult sometimes. This post reflects my thoughts…Jun 23, 2023Jun 23, 2023
Sowmya V.B.Human labeling, weak supervision and multilingual NLPThis post comprises of my notes on the practical applications of “weak supervision”, an area of machine learning, in Natural Language…Jun 20, 2023Jun 20, 2023
Sowmya V.B.Dilemma of an NLP student in the LLM EraI participated in a panel discussion of the “ACL Year Round Mentorship” monthly meetups earlier in May 2023, on the topic: “When Life…May 23, 20231May 23, 20231
Sowmya V.B.inBetter ProgrammingSome Criteria To Compare Among LLMsAlthough there has been a lot of active research on building large-scale language models over the past few years, there seems to be a…May 15, 2023May 15, 2023
Sowmya V.B.Information Extraction and ChatGPTInformation Extraction (IE) is one of the important applications of Natural Language Processing, and, as the name indicates, refers to the…Apr 28, 2023Apr 28, 2023
Sowmya V.B.LLMs in production — the missing discussionLast week, I attended a virtual conference organized by the MLOps community on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in production, and read…Apr 17, 2023Apr 17, 2023