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Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by cs702 on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:06PM (#17491254)
The title is a little too click-baity for my taste ("has arrived," huh?), but I think the OP is unto something.

It is now possible to grab a pretrained model and start producing state-of-the-art NLP results in a wide range of tasks with relatively little effort.

This will likely enable much more tinkering with NLP, all around the world... which will lead to new SOTA results in a range of tasks.

Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by zawerf on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:28PM (#17491424)
Do you have links for these pretrained models? The only one I am aware of is OpenAI's where they fine tuned a Transformer architecture for 1 month on 8 gpus:

https://blog.openai.com/language-unsupervised/

https://github.com/openai/finetune-transformer-lm

Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by sebastianruder on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:45PM (#17491540)
Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by cs702 on Monday July 09, 2018 @02:01PM (#17492146)
For those who don't know, Sebastian Ruder is a coauthor of the ULMFiT paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06146
Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by romaniv on Monday July 09, 2018 @01:50PM (#17492060)
>It is now possible to grab a pretrained model and start producing state-of-the-art NLP results in a wide range of tasks with relatively little effort.

Are there any applications/websites where this can be seen in action? It's increasingly hard to judge how good state-of-the-art really is from research papers.

Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by canada_dry on Monday July 09, 2018 @01:05PM (#17491697)
5 yrs ago (mostly for fun) I tried out the 'state-of-the-art' - at the time - NLTK sentiment analyzer to correlate stock market changes with a variety of news/info sources.

I put it on the shelf because the sentiment analysis just wasn't up to snuf (i.e. the bias differentiation was too weak).

Might be time to try again!

Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by bravura on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:39PM (#17493247)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think NLTK has ever had state of the art anything.
Re:NLP's ImageNet Moment: From Shallow to Deep Pre-Training by dang on Monday July 09, 2018 @02:43PM (#17492432)
Ok, we've replaced "has arrived" with a sub-heading above.