Representing Text in Context - Language Models and Contextual Understanding

Explore language models and contextualized text representations through this conference talk delivered by Dr. Kristina Toutanova from Google at the INSAIT 2022 Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. Delve into cutting-edge research on pre-training transferable text representations within expanding contextual frameworks, including immediate text passages, entity-related background information, table-associated article text, visual context for image text comprehension, and retrieved passages from extensive document collections. Learn about the challenges and opportunities in generalizing and efficiently implementing large pre-trained representations for practical applications, gaining valuable insights into the evolving landscape of natural language processing and its real-world implementation.