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In this episode of the ML India Podcast, we talk to Dr Monojit Choudhry a Principal Researcher from Microsoft Research India about Low Resource NLP, his experiences at ACL2020 and what Microsoft Research looks for while hiring. Since the recording of this episode, his paper at ACL has gained a lot of attention and was even highlighted in Sebastian Ruder's newsletter. https://ruder.io/nlp-beyond-english/. You can read the original paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09095 0:00 Intro1:06 Monojit Introduction and his current work 5:20 Impressions on Virtual ACL 2020 12:20 Challenges in Low Resource NLP 24:10 Open Problems in Zero Shot Multilingual Transfer Learning 34:10 The environment of Social Computing Research in India 37:26 Linguistic Bias and how bias is different in India 43:09 The Research Environment at MSR India 47:49 What MSR Looks for when hiring researchers 52:35 A Golden Question for Junior Researchers looking to get into NLP 55:56 Panini Linguistics Olympiad