Written by Alexander Raginsky 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) August 31 – September 4, 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece – http://mklab.iti.gr/essir2015/ It is with great pleasure to announce that the 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece between August 31 – September 4, 2015 hosted by the Multimedia Knowledge
Written by Alexander Raginsky From 2nd to 5th of September 2015, the TU Dortmund University and LIAAD-INESC TEC will organize a Summer School on Data Sciences for Big Data – Resource Aware Data Mining. The School will be hosted at Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto and is collocated with ECMLPKDD 2015 – European Conference on Machine Learning and
Written by Alexander Raginsky AlchemyAPI sells text analysis and computer vision capabilities that can be integrated into application, services, and data systems via a SaaS API. But I don’t believe you’ll find the words “cognitive computing” on AlchemyAPI‘s Web site. So where’s the fit? What gap was IBM seeking to fill? For an IBM description of Watson cognitive computing,
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation (LL4IR) CLEF Lab September, 2015, Toulouse, France http://living-labs.net/clef-lab/ Register at: http://clef2015-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php [Registration closes: 30 April, 2015] =========================================================================================== This lab provides a benchmarking platform for researchers to evaluate their ranking systems in a live setting with real users in their natural task environments. The lab acts as a proxy
Written by Alexander Raginsky The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015) will take place on September 7 of 2015, in Porto Portugal (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/). The conference includes a PhD session that provides an environment for students to exchange their ideas and experiences with peers and senior researchers in machine learning,
Written by Alexander Raginsky Since 2010, Lancaster University has run a highly successful series of free-to-attend summer training events. In 2015, we will for the first time be running two corpus linguistics events in parallel: · The UCREL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics · The UCREL/CASS Summer School in Statistics for Corpus Linguistics Sponsored by UCREL at Lancaster University
Written by Alexander Raginsky As of December 5, IBM launched the public beta of Watson Analytics. For those who are unfamiliar, this is one attempt by IBM to commercialize Watson by offering cloud-based predictive and analytics tools. In reading about this new product, I can help but to think of our own Calais. Yes, in Watson Analytics, IBM is
Written by Alexander Raginsky The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015) will take place on September 7 of 2015, in Porto Portugal (http://www.ecmlpkdd2015.org/) and includes a Nectar Track that offers conference attendees a compact overview of recent scientific advances at the frontier of machine learning and data mining with
Written by Alexander Raginsky 3rd International Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS 2015) 21-26 June 2015, Kefalonian Island, Greece http://samosweb.aegean.gr/idips2015 The 3rd International Document Image Processing Summer School (IDIPS 2015), endorsed by IAPR-TC11 and the Greek branch of IAPR, will be organized on the famous island of Kefalonia. Once more, the participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) offers this year its 5th PhD summer course in Translation Process Research (TPR) from August 17 to 21: https://sites.google.com/site/centretranslationinnovation/tpr2015 The course focuses on theoretical aspects of translation process research, on experimental research design and methodology, on data visualization and human translation modelling, and
