Written by Alexander Raginsky Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise. The truth is that innovation in this domain, as in all technological domains, follows a predictable cycle and goes
Written by Alexander Raginsky Lancaster University is pleased to offer six free training events that cover the techniques of corpus linguistics, computational analysis of language and geographical information systems. The following six Summer Schools will run in July 2016: o Corpus linguistics for Language studies o Corpus linguistics for Social Science o Corpus linguistics for the Humanities o Statistics
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running the fourth three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics on 6-8 July 2016. The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics is an introduction to Corpus Linguistics for students of language and linguistics and teachers of English. Participants should have a basic knowledge
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running the fourth three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics on 6-8 July 2016. The Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics is an introduction to Corpus Linguistics for students of language and linguistics and teachers of English. Participants should have a basic knowledge
Written by Alexander Raginsky Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers 39th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016)
Written by Alexander Raginsky The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval 20-23 March 2016 Padua, Italy Student Travel Grant Deadline: 19 February 2016 http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ http://twitter.com/ecir2016 ########################################################## The ECIR 2016 conference is pleased to announce the availability of 15 student travel grants made available by ELIAS (http://elias-network.eu/). Grant Scope ————— The ECIR 2016 student travel grant program provides up to
Written by Alexander Raginsky Games are a great testing ground for developing smarter, more flexible algorithms that have the ability to tackle problems in ways similar to humans. Creating programs that are able to play games better than the best humans has a long history – the first classic game mastered by a computer was noughts and crosses (also
Written by Alexander Raginsky Talk about a fraught concept, this one ought to give you the willies. I don’t mean to be a Luddite about the magical abilities of technology but the concept here is to replace data scientists with software. As long as I have practiced in data science I am constantly coming upon new and unexpected reasons
Written by Alexander Raginsky Course Summary Machine learning is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting fields out there, and deep learning represents its true bleeding edge. In this course, you’ll develop a clear understanding of the motivation for deep learning, and design intelligent systems that learn from complex and/or large-scale datasets. We’ll show you how to train and
Written by Alexander Raginsky Our network was trained on a lot of data from the United Nations and the European Parliament, so these are the kind of sentences that it does well on. Give them a try! Economic growth has slowed down in recent years. The war in the Middle East is almost over. The European Parliament has decided
