This Week in NLP

Week ending Friday 5th October 2018

Another week's over.  Did you keep up with your Twitter feed?  Did you catch up on all those blogs?  No?  Well, we did, so you can relax: here are five key happenings this week in the world of Natural Language Processing that are worth knowing about. 

 

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Apple's response to Google's Smart Compose?

Apple's NLP team reports on the use of document-wide context in text prediction.  But unlike Google, Apple doesn't have your (and everyone else's) email history as broader context.

 
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Alexa can be hacked by chirping birds

Yet another adversarial attack:  this time, voice commands to Alexa hidden in bird chirping.

 
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Microsoft SwiftKey integrated with Translator

SwiftKey now lets you translate both incoming and outgoing messages in real-time, so you no longer need to jump between apps when you're trying to negotiate entry to your overseas AirBnB.

 
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Nearly a quarter of US households own a smart speaker

The biggest component of speaker usage is listening to music, followed by weather and traffic information.

 
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Amazon Translate tops survey of Neural MT Engines

Amazon beat Bing Microsoft Translator, DeepL Translator, Google Translate and Systran in this test.

 
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