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Published inSep 2021
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Savaş Yıldırım
Savaş Yıldırım
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Savaş Yıldırım

Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.
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Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu
Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu
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Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu

Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu is an AI manager at Carbon Consulting and is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tabriz. He has been a consultant for Turkey's leading telecommunication and banking companies. He has also worked on various projects, including natural language understanding and semantic search.
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Section 1: Introduction – Recent Developments in the Field, Installations, and Hello World Applications

In this section, you will learn about all aspects of Transformers at an introductory level. You will write your first hello-world program with Transformers by loading community-provided pre-trained language models and running the related code with or without a GPU. Installing and utilizing the tensorflow, pytorch, conda, transformers, and sentenceTransformers libraries will also be explained in detail in this section.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, From Bag-of-Words to the Transformers
  • Chapter 2, A Hands-On Introduction to the Subject
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Savaş Yıldırım

Savaş Yıldırım graduated from the Istanbul Technical University Department of Computer Engineering and holds a Ph.D. degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Currently, he is an associate professor at the Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, and is a visiting researcher at the Ryerson University, Canada. He is a proactive lecturer and researcher with more than 20 years of experience teaching courses on machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. He has significantly contributed to the Turkish NLP community by developing a lot of open source software and resources. He also provides comprehensive consultancy to AI companies on their R&D projects. In his spare time, he writes and directs short films, and enjoys practicing yoga.
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Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu

Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu is an AI manager at Carbon Consulting and is also a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tabriz. He has been a consultant for Turkey's leading telecommunication and banking companies. He has also worked on various projects, including natural language understanding and semantic search.
Read more about Meysam Asgari- Chenaghlu