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Beyond spell checkers: Enhancing the editing process with deep learning
| Miltos Allamanis, Marc Brockschmidt, and Alex Gaunt
“Here’s my conference paper—what do you think?” After hours of agonizing over words and illustrations, sharing a draft document is a moment of great pride. All too often, this is shortly followed by embarrassment when your colleague gets back to…
Minimizing trial and error in the drug discovery process
| Alex Gaunt, Marc Brockschmidt, and Miltos Allamanis
In 1928, Alexander Fleming accidentally let his petri dishes go moldy, a mistake that would lead to the breakthrough discovery of penicillin and save the lives of countless people. From these haphazard beginnings, the pharmaceutical industry has grown into one…
Learning from Source Code
Over the last five years, deep learning-based methods have revolutionised a wide range of applications, for example those requiring understanding of pictures, speech and natural language. For computer scientists, a naturally arising question is whether computers learn to understand source…