Episode Synopsis "The Most Important Question To Ask in NLP Today? | Dr. Monojit Choudhury from MSR India"

In this episode of the ML India Podcast, we talk to Dr Monojit Choudhry a Principal Researcher from Microsoft Research India about Low Resource NLP, his experiences at ACL2020 and what Microsoft Research looks for while hiring. Since the recording of this episode, his paper at ACL has gained a lot of attention and was even highlighted in Sebastian Ruder's newsletter. https://ruder.io/nlp-beyond-english/. You can read the original paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09095  0:00 Intro 1:06 Monojit Introduction and his current work  5:20 Impressions on Virtual ACL 2020  12:20 Challenges in Low Resource NLP  24:10 Open Problems in Zero Shot Multilingual Transfer Learning  34:10 The environment of Social Computing Research in India  37:26 Linguistic Bias and how bias is different in India  43:09 The Research Environment at MSR India  47:49 What MSR Looks for when hiring researchers  52:35 A Golden Question for Junior Researchers looking to get into NLP  55:56 Panini Linguistics Olympiad

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