| Challenge: | a recent paper argues that current publications foster a gap between adoption and understanding of models . it also makes it easier to meet publication demands with method papers, argues the paper . |
| Approach: | They argue that current NLP publication models foster a gap between adoption and understanding of models . they argue that everlarger models make it harder to explain how our methods work . |
| Outcome: | The authors argue that current publications foster a gap between adoption and understanding of models . they argue that the rise of everlarger models makes it harder to explain how our methods work . |
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