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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/phd-defence-natural-langua
 ge-processing-novel-methods-for-natural-language-modeling-and-pretraining
LOCATION:200 University Avenue West Online PhD defence Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 
 Canada
SUMMARY:PhD Defence • Natural Language Processing • Novel Methods for\n
 Natural Language Modeling and Pretraining
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: THIS PHD DEFENCE WILL TAKE PLACE ONLINE.\n\nHE (RI
 CHARD) BAI\, PHD CANDIDATE\n_David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science_
 \n\nSUPERVISOR: Professor Ming Li\n\nThis thesis is about modeling text an
 d speech sequences to achieve\nlower perplexity\, better generation\, and 
 benefit downstream language\ntasks\; specifically\, we address the problem
  of modeling natural\nlanguage sequences (text and speech) with Transforme
 r-based language\nmodels. We present three new techniques that improve seq
 uence modeling\nin different ways.
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