Doors at 6:00 PM, discussion from 6:30-7:30, networking 7:30-8:00.

Venue: 44 Tehama St, San Francisco, CA 94105

This will be the latest session of an ongoing NLP reading group for industry folks, & we will be doing something a little different: Karunakar Singamreddy (SK) will be presenting about his research & work on Question Answering.

Abstract:

Natural Language Processing is solving human needs of language translation, reading comprehension & question answering (QA). This talk willdiscuss the current state of knowledge in QA & NLP, training neural networks for QA with news sources like CNN & Daily Mail, & progress made by Microsoft & Facebook on QA on other datasets (like bAbi).It will also cover the results of SK's experiment on teaching a computer to comprehend an Indian epic story.

Optional (but recommended) Reading:

Teaching Machines to Read & Comprehend. Karl Moritz Hermann, Toma s Kocisky , Edward Grefenstette, Lasse Espeholt, Will Kay, Mustafa Suleyman & Phil Blunsom. 2015.

Ask Me Anything: Dynamic Memory Networks for Natural Language Processing. Ankit Kumar, Ozan Irsoy, Peter Ondruska, Mohit Iyyer, James Bradbury, Ishaan Gulrajani, Victor Zhong, Romain Paulus & Richard Socher. 2016.

The Goldilocks Principle: Reading childrens books with explicit memory representations.Felix Hill, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, & Jason Weston. 2015.

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Karunakar Singamreddy (SK) is a tech start-up entrepreneur & a technologist & is interested in solving industrial problems with machine learning techniques. In his recently acquired start-up, he developed a solution to compare & rank documents. He is also curious about recommendation engines, machine learning techniques & deep learning models. Check him out onGithuband his writing onLinkedIn.