Text Augmentation for NLP – Kenneth Enevoldsen on Augmenty

#12: Kenneth Enevoldsen joins Arfon and Abby to discuss Augmenty, a python library for text augmentation, balancing contributor-friendliness with maintainability in open source, and which danishes he would eat.

Kenneth is a PhD student at Aarhus University and the maintainer of many open source libraries including Augmenty, MTEB, TextDescriptives, ScandEval and more.

You can follow Kenneth on X @kcenevoldsen, LinkedIn @kennethenevoldsen, and GitHub @kennethenevoldsen.

Episode highlights:

• [00:00:48] - Discussion on Augmenty and Text Augmentation

• [00:02:55] - Origins and Development of Augmenty

• [00:05:51] - Applications and Use Cases of Augmenty

• [00:12:20] - Community Building and Open Source Contributions

• [00:15:41] - Maintaining Open Source Projects

• [00:20:52] - Publishing in JOSS and Final Thoughts

• [00:25:32] - Conclusion and Outro

Links:

• JOSS paper: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.06370

• Augmenty repository: https://github.com/KennethEnevoldsen/augmenty

• DaCy: https://github.com/centre-for-humanities-computing/DaCy

• spaCy: https://spacy.io/

• Multilingual MTEB Project: https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb

• Kenneth on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, GitHub

• The Journal of Open Source Software (Twitter/X, blog)

• @arfon on (fosstodon, Linkedin, GitHub, website)

• @abbycabs on (Twitter/X, hachyderm, bsky, Linkedin, GitHub, website)

• Donate to JOSS

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