Understanding Transformers in NLP: State-of-the-Art Models

I love being a data scientist working in Natural Language Processing (NLP) right now. The breakthroughs and developments are occurring at an unprecedented pace. From the super-efficient ULMFiT framework to Google's BERT, NLP is truly in the midst of a golden era. And at the heart of this revolution is the concept of the Transformer. This has transformed the way we data scientists work with text data – and you'll soon see how in this article.