Author: NLP Program Team
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Diving into the NLP Capstone Experience: A First-Hand Look at NLP 271A
At UCSC, NLP MS students design, create, implement, and present NLP Capstone projects to address real-world NLP topics. In a 15-unit course sequence taught over two quarters, students work on teams mentored by industry professionals and UCSC faculty to develop an innovative response to current NLP issues. In many ways, this experience is similar to…
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Capstone Projects 2023
CDIAL, Google, and UCSC Adapters and Reinforcement Learning for Data-EfficientMachine Translation Student Team: Abigail Kufeldt, Malini Kar, Parikshith Honnegowda, Vignesh S, Pranjali Basmatkar, Shashwat Pandeyand Kushagra Seth[poster] [report] Adobe Enriching Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation using Reinforcement Learning Student Team: Cookie Pan, Haolong Jia, Zoe Gupta, Mridul Pankaj Khanna, Vijay Chilaka, Chengxuan Xia, Sree Latha Chopparapu[poster]…
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Capstone Projects 2021
NLP students showcased their projects at the inaugural NLP Capstone Workshop in August 2021 to an audience made up of faculty members, Industry Advisory Board and invited guests from industry. Each team has half an hour to present their work and take questions from attendees. The NLP Capstone experience offers a great opportunity to extend…
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UCSC Goes to ACL 2023
It’s a fascinating time to work in natural language processing. In recent years, we’ve witnessed incredible advances in AI and a growing global interest in the NLP methods and technologies driving recent innovations. This year, industry experts and research scientists gathered in Toronto at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) to discuss…
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Making a Smooth Move to Silicon Valley
If you are relocating to Silicon Valley, you are not alone! Many students before you have done the same. In this post, Pranjali Basmatkar (NLP student 2022-2023), shares her advice for moving to Santa Clara, California. Please note that the views and opinions expressed on this page represent the author’s views and do not necessarily…
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Student Spotlight: Dhananjay Sonawane
Undergraduate major: Bachelor’s in Electronics and Telecommunication Undergraduate Institution: Sardar Patel Institute of Technology First master’s degree: Master’s of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar Dhananjay is an Natural Language Processing MS student with a professional background in machine learning. Alongside being a student, Dhananjay is building an Alexa TaskBot and serves as a teaching…
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Student Spotlight: Shashwat Pandey
Undergraduate major: BTech Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Engineering Undergraduate Institution: Jaypee Institute of Information Technology Hometown: Kanpur, India Passionate about NLP research, Shashwat aims to solve problems within NLP, as well as in society, using NLP technology and contribute to the rapid growth of the field. Shashwat also brings to the program interdisciplinary interests in linguistics and ethics…
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Student Spotlight: Sugam Garg
Undergraduate major: BE Computer Science Undergraduate Institution: BITS-Pilani Hometown: Noeda, Inda After 4 years of working in industry, Sugam comes to the NLP MS program with a drive to learn about NLP theory and how to build NLP models. As a Student Ambassador, he brings people together, socially and academically, and hopes to eventually apply his NLP skills…
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Student Spotlight: Mridul Pankaj Khanna
Undergraduate major: BE Computer Engineering Undergraduate Institution: Pune Institute of Computer Technology Hometown: Mumbai, India Driven by his interest in NLP, Mridul joined the NLP program after working in the gaming industry for 4 years. He hopes to eventually apply the skills gained in the program to an engineering role in NLP or machine learning. He currently…
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Capstone Projects 2022
NLP students collaborated with industry mentors from IBM, Interactions, LinkedIn, and Google to develop and implement a variety of Capstone projects to address real-world NLP challenges. The workshop also featured a keynote address about the future of NLP from Professor Ian Lane as well as the annual NLP Industry Panel where leading scientists shared their insights on…
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Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings
Student Team: Anuroop John Abraham, Archit Bose, Kartik, and Utkarsh Garg Project Mentor: Ashvini Jindal, LinkedIn, Dr. Ananth Sankar, LinkedIn An extensive amount of NLP research focuses on learning word representations that accurately reflect their semantic properties. We investigate whether these word embeddings capture the same semantics of the word as its dictionary definition/gloss. To accomplish this, we leverage a reverse…
