Harnessing the Power of NLP - Vector Institute Industry Collaborative Project
Explore the Vector Institute's industry-academia collaboration project on large-scale pre-trained language models in this 36-minute talk by Sedef Akinli Kocak, Project Manager at Applied AI Project, Vector Institute. Gain insights into the challenges of developing and employing advanced NLP models in business settings, and learn how the project addressed these issues by familiarizing industry participants with cutting-edge techniques. Discover how 60 participants, including Vector researchers and industry professionals from 16 sponsor companies, worked in 11 groups to develop experiments relevant to real-world industry needs. Understand the practical knowledge gained through pre-training large-scale language models, theoretical concepts learned from leading NLP practitioners, and the professional networking opportunities provided. Examine the technical challenges encountered during the project and the solutions implemented. Conclude with best practices for future industry collaborative projects in the field of Natural Language Processing. Read more