NLP Archive

Twistbytes Approach to Hierarchical Classification shared Task at GermEval 2019

by Fernando Benites (ZHAW and SpinningBytes) cross-posted from github We explain here, step by step, how to reproduce results of the approach and discuss parts of the paper. The approach was aimed at building a strong baseline for the task, which should be beaten by deep learning approaches, but we did not achieve that, so […]

11.11.2019 mild

Kategorie: Allgemein, Blog

Twist Bytes @Vardial 2018

by Fernando Benites (ZHAW and SpinningBytes) cross-posted from the SpinningBytes blog schwiiz ja* This year, the SpinningBytes team participated in the VarDial competition, where we achieved second place in the German Dialect Identification shared task. The task’s goal was to identify, which region the speaker of a given sentence is from, based on the dialect […]

21.07.2019 mild

Kategorie: Allgemein, Blog, Technical

The Rise of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases

Kurt Stockinger was invited to contribute a blog to ACM SIGMOD – the leading world-wide community of database research. The blog discusses recent technological advances of natural language interfaces to databases. The ultimate goal is to talk to a database (almost) like to a human. The full blog can be found on the following ACM […]

28.06.2019 mild

Kategorie: Allgemein, Research

Data Science made in Switzerland

Tag: NLP

Twistbytes Approach to Hierarchical Classification shared Task at GermEval 2019

Twist Bytes @Vardial 2018

The Rise of Natural Language Interfaces to Databases