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Saad_M

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About Saad_M

NLG Expert & Lead Data scientist at trivago. One of the maintainers for the SimpleNLG project: https://github.com/simplenlg/simplenlg

Personal Webpage: https://saad.me.uk/

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    https://saad.me.uk Nothing special, just mostly a list of stuff that I've worked on in terms of my research interests.

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    trivago | Multiple Positions | Düsseldorf, Germany | Onsite (3 days per week) | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship trivago is a well-known travel tech company enabling users to find the …

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    trivago | Multiple Positions | Düsseldorf, Germany | Onsite (3 days per week) | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship trivago is a well-known travel tech company enabling users to find the …

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    trivago | Multiple Positions | Düsseldorf, Germany | Onsite (3 days per week) | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship trivago is a well-know travel tech company enabling users to find the r…

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    Onsite, 3-days per week.

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    trivago | Multiple Positions | Düsseldorf, Germany | Onsite (3 days per week) | Full Time | Visa Sponsorship trivago is a well-know travel tech company enabling users to find the r…

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    Also for healthcare. Nuance is a big player in the healthcare market. A whole segment where DL approaches are not suitable due to lack of transparency.

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    Comment #25730913

    On the academic side the SIGGEN mailing list is where a lot of the activity in the NLG community goes on: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=SIGGEN

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    Comment #25730880

    But it isn’t. I am still actively involved in NLG both professionally and academically and neural NLG systems have great promise but are still far from actively delivering tangible…

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    I very much disagree. There are use case such as weather reporting, electronic medical report summarisation, etc. That make more sense as a textual representation than bundles of g…

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    I guess this effects all companies that run a platform whether it be social or market based. The question is what can a company do prevent bad internal actors without put their emp…

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    >> They don't even have a space program. Actually this is factually incorrect. They do have a space program and planning to send their first satellite to Mars this year: https://ww…

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    The real question is whether a programming language that has lost traction, mindshare, and focus ever gained it back? It's probably no coincidence that Python's rise was at the sam…

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    I don't agree 100% with the author, but I do wholeheartedly agree that the relevance of FSF movement definitely peaked after the ratification of GPLv3. After which, the relevance a…

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    Comment #17327832

    Yes it is. NLG is the sister field to NLP.

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    One thing I keep hoping for is improvements in the UI side of LibreOffice. I presume under Windows and Linux the UI feels more fluid and natural, but under macOS it is definitely i…

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    Is there a really need for this type of product? With the choice of either collecting your parcel from a delivery office or the multitude of delivery lockers that are popping up ev…

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    Another alternative is that you may get a Galapagos island effect where Chinese firms do innovate, but their innovation is tied to the cultural and regulatory norms and not very ap…

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    In the article it’s noted that the digital camera couldn’t handle the fine dust and sand of Sudan, whereas the film camera did. Are there digital cameras can handle such difficult …

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    Yes and no. For the most premature babies in the low 20s week gestation they have minimal physical contact with their parents. However older preterm infants do receive Kangroo care…

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    Comment #14146610

    Really interesting text-to-text generation work. There’s also some work being looking at using Neural Networks for data-to-text generation. Some of which was presented at INLG 2016…

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