Written by Alexander Raginsky At the end of the nineties, Arabic gained the reputation of having a “rich and complex morphology”. As much as half of the scientific papers in Arabic NLP start with this key phrase. The richness of Arabic morphology is obvious, since for instance Arabic nouns have four inflectional features, while French nouns have two. However,
Written by Alexander Raginsky Posted by Alexander Mordvintsev, Software Engineer, Christopher Olah, Software Engineering Intern and Mike Tyka, Software Engineer Artificial Neural Networks have spurred remarkable recent progress in image classification and speech recognition. But even though these are very useful tools based on well-known mathematical methods, we actually understand surprisingly little of why certain models work and others
Written by Alexander Raginsky Sprylogics International Corp. (SPY.V) a technology provider of semantic search, machine learned language and Natural Language Processing, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Anthem Sports & Entertainment Corp. (“Anthem”) a global specialty content platform focused on passionate sports and lifestyle communities across multiple media. Under the terms of the
Written by Alexander Raginsky 2nd Call for Participation Second Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2015) http://assia2015.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/ Information Retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information resources from information repositories according to users’ information need. The summer schools in Information Retrieval have been very successful in Europe where research students, young faculty members, or industrial researchers can get
Written by Alexander Raginsky Thanks to a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the US National Institutes of Health, we are able to provide a small number of travel fellowships for US participants in BioCreative 2015. Students, post-doctoral fellows, women, and participants from under-represented minorities are encouraged to apply. Please note that applying for a
Written by Alexander Raginsky 2nd Call for Participation Second Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2015) http://assia2015.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/ Information Retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information resources from information repositories according to users’ information need. The summer schools in Information Retrieval have been very successful in Europe where research students, young faculty members, or industrial researchers can get
Written by Alexander Raginsky 1st Call for the ECIR student mentoring programme * The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval 20 – 23 March, 2016 Padua, Italy http://ecir2016.dei.unipd.it/ https://twitter.com/ecir2016 ########################################################### ECIR 2016 is offering a student mentoring programme with the objective to help and support students with the writing of their papers to be submitted to the ECIR conference
Written by Alexander Raginsky We are happy to announce that “Language Science Press” has just published the following open access book in their series “Translation and Multilingual NLP”: “NEW DIRECTIONS IN CORPUS-BASED TRANSLATION STUDIES” by Claudio Fantinuoli & Federico Zanettin (eds.) Please download your free copy from http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/76 Alternatively, printed copies can be purchased at moderate cost from booksellers
Written by Alexander Raginsky The University of Potsdam is offering an MSc in Cognitive Systems: Language, Learning, and Reasoning http://www.cogsys.uni-potsdam.de The MSc Cognitive Systems is a two-year Master’s program that covers computational linguistics, machine learning, and knowledge representation and reasoning. The focus of this MSc is on developing intelligent computer systems, and in cognitive modeling. This brings several fields
Written by Alexander Raginsky We would like to remind you that the early registration period for the tenth Madrid UPM Advanced Statistics and Data Mining Summer School finishes on June 7th. The summer school will be held in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid, from June 29th to July 10th. As in previous years, the school comprises 12 week-long courses,
