7 Amazing NLP Hack Sessions to Watch out for at DataHack Summit 2019

Picture a world where:
- Machines are able to have human-level conversations with us
- Computers understand the context of the conversation without having to be told what the subject is
- These machines can even write full-blown essays after being given the theme of the topic
This isn’t a movie script or a futuristic scenario – this is all happening right now thanks to the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP)! Here’s the incredible rise charted by Google Trends in the last decade:
Awesome, right? I honestly feel the number of breakthroughs happening in this field is unparalleled. The past two years have been a blur – the Transformer architecture, introduced in 2017, has truly transformed the NLP space.
From the super-efficient ULMFiT framework to Google’s BERT, NLP is truly in the midst of a