Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is one of the leading annual research conferences for language processing, and it’s also a great place to see some cutting-edge developments in AI. This past December, I attended EMNLP 2022 and brought my camera with me. I wanted to record my

Dive into the world of Sentence Transformers with Nils Reimers, creator of Sentence-BERT and expert in NLP. Join the conversation as he shares his experience in developing this popular tool and his insights on evaluating embeddings through works like MTEB & BEIR.

In the second episode in our series on applied NLP, I sat down with Vincent Warmerdam [https://twitter.com/fishnets88], a machine learning engineer at Explosion, the company behind spaCY and Prodigy for data labeling. Vincent builds a lot of NLP tools [https://github.com/koaning], many of which target

In the first episode of the Talking Language AI series, I spoke with Maarten Grootendorst, author and maintainer of the BERTopic open source package (over 3,000 stars on Github). BERTopic is used to explore collections of text to spot trends and identify the topics in these texts. This is