Written by Alexander Raginsky Many gadgets will be able to understand images and video thanks to chips designed to run powerful artificial-intelligence algorithms. By Tom Simonite on May 14, 2015 WHY IT MATTERS Many applications for mobile computers could be more powerful with advanced image recognition. Many of the devices around us may soon acquire powerful new abilities to
Written by Alexander Raginsky Summer School in Corpus Linguistics: Tools and Applications This event will cover the latest developments in corpus tools and corpus applications through an intensive programme of interactive sessions to be run by leading figures in the field. It will provide participants with in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge methods and techniques for undertaking advanced research. More information:
Written by Alexander Raginsky Summer School Methods for metaphor identification and analysis Amsterdam, Netherlands Sunday evening 14 June until Friday evening 19 June 2015 After two successful rounds in one cycle of Winter and Summer schools in 2012 and 2013 with over 30 participants from all over Europe and some countries outside Europe, the Metaphor Lab Amsterdam is delighted
Written by Alexander Raginsky Autumn School 2015 for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF) Overview lectures on Advanced topics in Information Retrieval and Information Foraging. 19. – 25. September 2015 in Katlenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/veranstaltungen/asirf2015/ The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging 2015 (ASIRF) provides unique opportunies to learn about the the latest developments in the
Written by Alexander Raginsky Talent Meets Bertelsmann 2015 – The International Networking Extravaganza taking place in Berlin from June 29 to July 1, 2015. Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset? Are you creative? Are you passionate about shaping the future of the media landscape, especially in the digital domain? Then seize the opportunity and apply to participate in “Talent
Written by Alexander Raginsky Summer School on LINGUISTIC LINKED OPEN DATA 12th in the series of EUROLAN Schools 13 – 25 July 2015 Sibiu, Romania http://eurolan.info.uaic.ro/2015/ **EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JUNE 10 2015** Linguistic Linked Open Data is a topic of emerging importance in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Increasingly, researchers are rendering major linguistic resources, including annotated
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 Powerful computers will reshape humanity’s future. How to ensure the promise outweighs the perils Read the Economist article at http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21650543-powerful-computers-will-reshape-humanitys-future-how-ensure-promise-outweighs?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/thedawnofartificialintelligence Source: The Economist
Written by Alexander Raginsky On April 30 and May 1, the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) sponsored a two half-day workshop on training translator trainers to teach machine translation. The objective was to provide trainers with the necessary understanding, confidence and skills to teach machine translation to translators. The SALIS department at the Dublin City University organized the
Written by Alexander Raginsky Student Research Workshop associated with the conference ‘Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing’ http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2015/ranlpStud2015 Further to the previous successful and highly competitive Student Research Workshops associated with the conference ‘Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing’ (RANLP, in 2009, 2011, and 2013), we are pleased to announce the fourth edition of the workshop which will be
