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Published inSep 2021
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ISBN-139781801077651
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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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In this chapter, we have covered a variety of introductory topics and also got our hands dirty with the hello-world transformer application. On the other hand, this chapter plays a crucial role in terms of applying what has been learned so far to the upcoming chapters. So, what has been learned so far? We took a first small step by setting the environment and system installation. In this context, the anaconda package manager helped us to install the necessary modules for the main operating systems. We also went through language models, community-provided models, and tokenization processes. Additionally, we introduced multitask (GLUE) and cross-lingual benchmarking (XTREME), which enables these language models to become stronger and more accurate. The datasets library was introduced, which facilitates efficient access to NLP datasets provided by the community. Finally, we learned how to evaluate the computational cost of a particular model in terms of memory usage and speed...

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Published in: Sep 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801077651

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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.
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