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Challenging NLG datasets and tasks

Mar 4, 2021 ehudreiter5 Comments

I would like neural NLG researchers to focus on more challenging datasets, and make some suggestions.

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Do people “cheat” by overfitting test data

Feb 6, 2020Feb 11, 2020 ehudreiter2 Comments

NLP in 2020 is dominated by papers which report small improvements in state-of-art. I suspect that a lot of these improvements are due to overfitting test data, not to genuine scientific advances.

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