Recent advances in neural language models
Date:
Colloquium talk.
Slides: neural-lms.pdf
Abstract: This will be a gentle introduction to the foundational problem of probabilistic language modeling. I’ll quickly review some of the traditional (non-neural) approaches and then discuss recent breakthroughs that use deep neural networks to obtain state of the art results for English. I’ll close with some of the challenges these developments present for more interesting languages.