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 the key happenings this week in the world of
Natural Language Processing that we think are worth knowing about.
Chinese search engine Sogou also announced some translation tech at CES, but perhaps more interesting is their ranking first in the Stanford CoQA challenge. The company claims that the technology is already in use in Sogou Mingyi, a diagnosing assistant that imitates patient-doctor conversations, and Sogou Lawyer, a legal search service.
1. Acknowledging its belatedness, the New York Times has published an obituary of Karen Spärck Jones, a founding figure in NLP and Information Retrieval who passed away in 2007.
2. IBM has launched Project Debater, a tool which collects arguments, evaluates them, and tries to produce a concise argument of its own.
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