Highlights from Machine Translation and Multilinguality in November 2022

Here are my monthly highlights from paper machine translation and multilinguality that appeared on arXiv in November 2022. A preprint with 19 authors from 13 institutions presents something like the T0 model: but instead of starting with the (more or less) monolingual T5 model, they use multilingual BLOOM and mT5 and call the resulting model BLOOMZ and mT0. The main idea is finetuning the underlying model (or the foundation model?) on as many tasks as possible so that the model […]

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Protocols in Python

If you have heard about the Abstract classes, you will be a quick grabber. Protocols are the best way to make the methods, functions, or classes follow a set of rules (introduced in the 3.8 version of python).

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Find what Taylor Swift is singing about using NLP with Python.

After the presale ticket sales opened for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour — her first tour since 2018 — a mad rush ensued, leading to “historically unprecedented demand” that snapped up 2 million tickets, the most tickets ever sold for one artist in a day. The aftermath, termed “Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster meltdown” has become a prevalent topic, even taking political dimensions and stimulating bipartisan outrage from some Democrats and Republicans who have questioned whether Ticketmaster handled the Swift ticket rollout appropriately. […]

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