About

Deep Learning Scientist at Translated with solid background in CS and experience in Deep Learning and Distributed Systems. Previously, I worked as a research engineer in the Language Modelling team at Apple Siri.

Publications

• Neural Language Model Pruning for Automatic Speech Recognition

  Authors: Leonardo Emili, Thiago Fraga-Silva, Ernest Pusateri, Markuss Nußbaum-Thom, and Youssef Oualil
  [ArXiv]: link
  

  Bibtex

    @misc{emili2023neural,
        title={Neural Language Model Pruning for Automatic Speech Recognition}, 
        author={Leonardo Emili and Thiago Fraga-Silva and Ernest Pusateri and Markus Nußbaum-Thom and Youssef Oualil},
        year={2023},
        eprint={2310.03424},
        archivePrefix={arXiv},
        primaryClass={cs.LG}
    }
  

Selected projects

• Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Multitask learning approach to identify aspects and categories of target entities in SemEval-2014, using BERT contextualized-embeddings and Conditional Random Field (CRF). Source code is available here. Report is available here.

• Word-in-Context Disambiguation: WiC as a binary classification task aims to assess whether polysemous words are used with the same meaning. Source code is available here. Report is available here.

• Distributed Stock Price Forecasting: Stock price forecasting system to predict S&P 500 stock prices, built using Apache Spark. Source code is available here. Report is available here.

• Wikifier: Entity Linking is the task of tagging a span of text with entities in a target knowledge base. Source code is available here.
  Click to see a sample output!

  Predicted annotation:

  A Huguenot and officer under Admiral Gaspard De Coligny, Ribault led an expedition to the New World in 1562 that founded the outpost of Charlesfort on Parris Island in present-day South Carolina.

  Gold annotation:

  A Huguenot and officer under Admiral Gaspard De Coligny, Ribault led an expedition to the New World in 1562 that founded the outpost of Charlesfort on Parris Island in present-day South Carolina.

• SpendyBudget: A simple spending tracker to help you manage your expenses. Source code is available here. Live demo is available here.