[EuroPython 2024 — Terrace 2A on 2024-07-12] Representation is King: The Journey to Quality Dialog Embeddings by Adam Zíka https://ep2024.europython.eu/session/representation-is-king-the-journey-to-quality-dialog-embeddings In natural language processing, embeddings are crucial for understanding textual data. In this talk, we’ll explore sentence embeddings and their application in dialog systems. We'll focus on a use case involving the classification of dialogs. We'll demonstrate the necessity of sentence transformers for this problem, specifically utilizing one of the top-performing small-sized sentence transformers. We will show how to fine-tune this model with both labeled and unlabeled dialog data, using the SentenceTransformers Python framework. This talk is practical, packed with easy-to-follow examples, and aimed at building intuition around this topic. While some basic knowledge of Transformers would be beneficial, it is not required. Newcomers are also welcome. --- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/