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Multi-domain Multilingual Question Answering

Sebastian Ruder

Among current key applications of NLP, QA has the lowest linguistic global utility, i.e. performance averaged across the world's languages ( Blasi et al., Linguistic and demographic utility of different NLP applications ( Blasi et al., 2008 ; Lin & Kuo, 2010 ; Shima & Mitamura, 2010 ).

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Selective Classification Can Magnify Disparities Across Groups

The Stanford AI Lab Blog

Across a range of applications from vision 1 2 3 and NLP 4 5 , even simple selective classifiers, relying only on model logits, routinely and often dramatically improve accuracy by abstaining. In Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. This makes selective classification a compelling tool for ML practitioners 6 7.

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Lexical Inference

Probably Approximately a Scientific Blog

As many other NLP tasks, this one is also difficult. Figure 3: I've just seen this on my Facebook feed after publishing the post and I had to add it :) As I mentioned before, recognizing lexical inference is usually a component in some NLP application. Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics-Volume 2.