Natural Language Processing: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities | PyData Global 2021

Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) is one of the most exciting fields in AI, with successful applications ranging from personal assistants, to customer service, to healthcare and many more. In the past few years we have witnessed several breakthroughs in different NLP tasks, as well as the improvement and consolidation of the NLP open-source ecosystem. Despite the buzz, building successful and efficient NLP solutions remains a challenging endeavour. This session starts with a short presentation that will offer an overview on the advances, challenges and opportunities in NLP technologies, looking at different modelling solutions and at the Python ecosystem. We’ll then continue with a Q&A / round table discussion. By attending this session, you’ll learn about recent trends in NLP as well as old-but-gold approaches, you’ll have the opportunity to ask your burning questions on NLP, and you’ll hopefully leave more confident and better equipped to tackle your NLP problems. This event i