Industrial Strength Natural Language Processing
Having spent a big part of my career as a graduate student researcher and now a Data Scientist in the industry, I have come to realize that a vast majority of solutions proposed both in academic research papers and in the work place are just not meant to ship — they just don’t scale! And when I say scale, I mean handling real world uses cases, ability to handle large amounts of data and ease of deployment in a production environment. Some of these approaches either work on extremely narrow use cases or have a tough time generating results in a timely manner. In