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From Bag-of-Words to the Transformers

Over the past two decades, there have been significant advancements in the field of natural language processing (NLP). We have gone through various paradigms and have now arrived at the era of the Transformer architecture. These advancements have helped us represent words or sentences more effectively in order to solve NLP tasks. On the other hand, different use cases of merging textual inputs to other modalities, such as images, have emerged as well. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) has seen the dawn of a new era. Chatbots were developed that act like humans by answering questions, describing concepts, and even solving mathematical equations step by step. All of these advancements happened ...

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