Ekaterina Kochmar: Automated Language Teaching & Assessment, NLP, Korbit.ai #122

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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Ekaterina Kochmar: Lecturer and Researcher at Cambridge University, Co-Founder & CSO at Korbit.ai

As you might know, Sanyam is a fan of learning to learn - The topic in general, they bring back the conversation in this episode. Ekaterina has been working on automated language teaching and assessment, which is using machine learning or different tools to augment teaching as an intelligent tutor to build intelligent systems for teaching different concepts for language, specifically English language, and even beyond.

They have a deeper dive into this conversation discuss:

- What does building a system like this take?

- What research goes into it?

- What are the interesting trends here?

They also dive into Katrina's approach of research, and what does a research pipeline for her look like.

Links:

https://www.manning.com/books/getting-started-with-natural-language-processing

Follow:

Ekaterina Kochmar:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekaterina-kochmar-0a655b14/

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ek358/

Sanyam Bhutani:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1

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