A strong person to follow for practical language systems because his work sits right at the intersection of pretraining, retrieval, and question answering, where product-grade NLP systems either become robust or fall apart.
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Editor reviewedJacob Devlin
Pretraining and representation learning for NLP
Co-author, BERT
A core name in the pretraining era of NLP, especially if you want to understand how BERT reshaped the field and how that line of work extended into broader document understanding and large-scale language systems.
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BERT and bidirectional pretraining
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Language representation learning at Google scale
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Document understanding and retrieval-oriented NLP systems
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Pretraining and representation learning for NLP
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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
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NLP
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