Dr. Richard Socher, Chief Scientist – Salesforce delivered a KCIS Invited Talk on The Natural Language Decathlon (DecaNLP) on 3 April.
Deep learning has significantly improved state-of-the-art performance for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but each one is typically studied in isolation. The Natural Language Decathlon (decaNLP) is a new benchmark for studying general NLP models that can perform a variety of complex, natural language tasks. DecaNLP offers a unique setting for multitask, transfer, and continual learning.
Dr. Richard Socher obtained his Ph.D from Stanford working on deep learning with Chris Manning and Andrew Ng and won the best Stanford CS Ph.D thesis award. He was an adjunct Professor at Stanford’s computer science department and founder and CEO/CTO of MetaMind which was acquired by Salesforce.