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Sentence Transformers and Embedding Evaluation

Date: 15 December 2022, Thursday
Time: 10:30 AM EST
Format: Virtual via Zoom

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Nils Reimers
Director, Machine Learning / Principal Scientist - Cohere
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Jay Alammar
Director, Engineering Fellow (NLP) - Cohere
Sentence Transformers is one of the most popular Language AI/NLP tools
 
Tens of thousands of users rely on it to build systems for text classification, neural/semantic search, text clustering, and other language AI tasks.
 
In this conversation, Nils Reimers, the creator of Sentence BERT will talk about,
  • An introduction to the package and the Large Language Models provided in it
  • Lessons learned from the open source development of such a popular package
  • His research collaborations on how to evaluate embeddings through works like MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark and BEIR
 
Bio: Nils Reimers is currently the Director and Principal Scientist of Machine Learning at Cohere.
 
Previously, he authored several well-known research papers, including Sentence-BERT and the popular sentence-transformers library. He also worked as a Research Scientist at HuggingFace, (co-)founded several web companies and worked as an AI consultant in the area of investment banking, media, and IoT.
 
Nils did his PhD and Post-Doc at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany in the area of Natural Language Processing under supervision of Prof. Iryna Gurevych at the UKP Lab.