Thanks to Stephan Gouws for his help on writing and improving this blog post. Transformers have recently become a competitive alternative to RNNs for a range of sequence modeling tasks. They address a significant shortcoming of RNNs, i.e. their inherently sequential computation which prevents parallelization across elements of the input sequence, whilst still addressing the […]
Hosein Azarbonyad, my best friend at ILPS, has just defended his PhD dissertation, on "Exploratory Search over Semi-Structured Documents". He is now a data scientist at KLM. I've designed Hosein's thesis cover:
Our paper "Learning to Transform, Combine, and Reason in Open-Domain Question Answering", with Hosein Azarbonyad, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke, has been accepted as a long paper at 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019).\o/ We have all come to expect getting direct answers to complex questions from search […]