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| Challenge: | Using a new orchestration framework, we build, test, and deploy interactive NLP and IR systems to production environments. |
| Approach: | They introduce a new orchestration framework for building, experimenting with, and deploying interactive NLP and IR systems to production environments. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is well suited to a variety of use cases but is not suitable for academic benchmarking or industry specific use cases. |
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