Challenges and Opportunities of NLP - New Perspectives from East Asian Languages

Explore the challenges and opportunities of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a focus on East Asian languages in this 32-minute seminar presented by Ms. Hoa Giang, a Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft. Gain insights into common NLP applications in commercial technology products and understand the unique context of East Asian languages. Learn about Ms. Giang's work in the Intelligent Input team of Microsoft AI + Research, including her contributions to text processing, text prediction, sequential data mining, and language modeling evaluation. Discover how she has deployed new models to improve East Asian languages such as Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese. Get an overview of the experimentation pipeline used to test language model quality. This seminar provides a valuable perspective on NLP applications, challenges, and opportunities specific to East Asian languages, offering a broader understanding of the field beyond traditional approaches.