The French RoBERTa, aka CamemBERT, is now part of Hugging Face's transformer library. The transformer achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on several NLP downstream tasks: part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, named-entity recognition, and natural language inference in French. Need a cheat-sheet for data science or ML? Thanks to this fellow, the biggest payload of cheat sheets in the galaxy covers several programming languages and use-cases is easily accessible on GitHub. One of the biggest retailers on planet Earth is turning to Conversational AI. This past week Walmart announced its partnership with Apple's Siri for peeps looking to buy groceries online -- the service is called Walmart Voice Order.

Wow, what a week it was. The EMNLP conference gave us many treats to chew on such as the growing popularity of cross-lingual learning and the continued adoption of knowledge graphs in language models. Because of all this action, this week's Cypher will be a bit longer than usual. What were some of the top keywords in EMNLP papers? Stephen Mayhew et al were live tweeting during the conference (thank you) and sharing all the action.