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Story time: How I started coding

Ines Montani

I spent hours writing, designing and printing my own magazines, and I dreamt about one day becoming a journalist or book author. Together with a friend I launched an online magazine about our favourite indie music. My favourite programs were Creative Writer and Fine Artist , essentially the 90s kids versions of InDesign and Photoshop.

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What if AI treats humans the way we treat animals?

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You are not a parrot,” proclaimed the headline of a widely read March profile of Emily Bender in New York magazine. We’re kind of at the point where we can make fire but do not even have the rudiments of what we’d need to understand it,” my friend Luke Gessler , a computational linguist, told me.

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Explosion in 2019: Our Year in Review

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Adriane is a computational linguist who has been engaged in research since 2005, completing her PhD in 2012. Nov 1: In November, Ines sat down with German magazine Kulturnews for an interview. ? Sep 4: spacy-transformers kept getting better as we released v0.4.0,

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Major trends in NLP: a review of 20 years of ACL research

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The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) is starting this week in Florence, Italy. In IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine – vol. The article is backed by a statistical and – guess what – NLP-based analysis of ACL papers from the last 20 years. Hazarika, S. Poria and E.

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