Bio
My name is Charin Polpanumas and I am a data scientist with over five years of track records in Southeast Asia, Japan, and China. I have delivered data products that save millions USD annually at the region’s largest online retailer, and currently working to transform the healthcare industry in Thailand. I am one of the main contributors to pyThaiNLP, the most starred Thai NLP library, and the author of thai2fit (formerly thai2vec), the first and current state-of-the-art transfer learning text classification model based on ULMFit.
My Talks
How pyThaiNLP's thai2fit Outperforms Google's BERT: State-of-the-Art Thai Text Classification and Beyond
Google's TPU-trained BERT made the headlines when it claimed state-of-the-art text classification results in multiple languages, but not Thai. This is the story of how our rag-tag group of open-sou...