The Natural Language Processing session at the Deep Learning Indaba 2019 takes place on Thursday, 29 August 2019. It is organized by Herman Kamper, Sebastian Ruder, and Vukosi Marivate. We are proud to have an amazing set of speakers for this year!
Chief Scientist at Salesforce
ML Engineer at Retro Rabbit
Network Coordinator, Artificial Intelligence for Development - Africa
Research Scientist at DeepMind
Chair of Data Science at University of Pretoria
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Utu Technologies
Research Scientist at DeepMind
Lecturer at Stellenbosch University
Thursday, August 29. Location: EBR 30
11:00 - 11:05 Welcome and opening remarks
11:05 - 11:50 Richard Socher: Multitask learning in NLP and DecaNLP (Slides)
11:50 - 12:20 Vukosi Marivate: NLP Challenges and opportunities on the continent (Slides)
12:20 - 12:50 Stephan Gouws: Evolution and successes of neural sequence models for NLP (Slides)
12:50 - 13:00 Call to Action: Machine translation pitch (Slides)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break and poster session
BREAK (see the Deep Learning Indaba program for more information)
16:30 - 17:00 Jade Abbott: Machine translation for African languages (Slides)
17:00 - 17:30 Sebastian Ruder: Cross-lingual word embeddings and beyond (Slides)
17:30 - 18:00 Brian Muhia: An AWD-LSTM LM of Swahili and crowdsourcing of translation & captioning datasets (Slides)
18:00 - 18:30 Herman Kamper: (Outrageously) low-resource speech processing (Slides)