Improving Conversational AI - Advancements in NLP Research at Facebook

Explore the latest advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research at Facebook in this 41-minute conference talk from F8 2019. Discover how cutting-edge technology is applied to solve language understanding challenges and learn about open-sourced production tools. Delve into topics such as breaking down language barriers through machine translation, invariant representations, weakly supervised learning, and robust neural machine translation systems. Examine generative question answering, challenging models with long inputs, and language modeling for pre-training. Gain insights into pre-trained representations for conversational understanding and knowledge distillation techniques used to improve conversational AI at Facebook.

Intro
Break Down Language Barrier Using Machine Translation
Invariant Representations
Weakly Supervised Learning
Robust Neural Machine Translation
Machine Translation System
Generative Question Answering
Challenging the Model With Long Input
Language Modeling for Pre-Training
Pre-Trained Representations for Conversational Understanding
Knowledge Distillation