Matti Lyra: Research into production: automating travel bookings using current NLP research

During the last couple of years a lot of progress has been made in a number of NLP tasks. This progress is largely due to new deep learning methods that utilise ever larger data sets. Translating the research progress into new and improved products in industry is not always straightforward; there is often no direct link between an academic NLP task and some automation task in industry. In order to utilise the progress in academia, research engineers need to dissect the automation tasks into smaller pieces t