Written by Alexander Raginsky CLEF NewsREEL 2015 Have you ever wondered how well your recommender would perform on actual users? Now you have the chance to find out. Join our living lab dedicated to news recommendation. We hook you up with real users whose reactions will tell whether your recommender performs well or does not. You can register via
Written by Alexander Raginsky 5th Lisbon Machine Learning School – “Natural Language Understanding” We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the 5th Lisbon Machine Learning School – LxMLS 2015. Important Dates ————— * Application Deadline: April 8, 2015 * Decision: May 8, 2015 * Early Registration: June 8, 2015 * Summer School: July
Written by Alexander Raginsky Two-year MA in Linguistics and its Applications for a Multilingual Society – Universities of Louvain and Oslo The Master’s Programme in Linguistics and its Applications for a Multilingual Society is a two-year programme offering a double degree at the University of Louvain (UCL) and the University of Oslo. The programme welcomes European and non-European applicants
Written by Alexander Raginsky According to a new release out of LinguaSys, “Millions of developers with only basic programming skills will now be able to create their own Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Language Understanding Interfaces (NLUI), with the announcement of today’s release of LinguaSys Natural Language User Interface Server. The new, multitenant, NLUI Server runs on Microsoft Azure’s open
Written by Alexander Raginsky 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2015) / Barcelona, Spain August 3rd 2015 – August 14th 2015 Universitat Pompeu Fabra http://www.esslli2015.org * Registration to open during January 2015 * The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is an annual event organized under the auspices of the Association for
Written by Alexander Raginsky International Master’s degree in Cognitive Science (Application deadline March 20, 2015) Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento International excellence The International Master?s program in Cognitive Science offers a unique opportunity for students aiming to train as scientists. Its main aim is to prepare strong Ph.D. candidates who are well trained and that can be
Written by Alexander Raginsky The new deadline for participation in the pre-submission mentoring program of ACL SRW is February 24. We encourage students that plan to submit their papers to ACL-IJCNLP Student Research Workshop 2015 to take part in the mentoring program! More information about mentoring program: https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/mentor-program Submission guidelines: https://sites.google.com/site/acl2015srw/submission-guidelines If you have any questions, please contact student
Written by Alexander Raginsky For household robots ever to be practical, they’ll need to be able to recognize the objects they’re supposed to manipulate. But while object recognition is one of the most widely studied topics in artificial intelligence, even the best object detectors still fail much of the time. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Written by Alexander Raginsky This report gives an overview of the landscape of Moses Machine Translation: the history, its adoption by industry, estimates of market size and demographics, types of users and usages, types of players in the market of Moses-backed solutions and their offerings and potential future scenarios for Moses use outside academia. It’s a valuable source of
Written by Alexander Raginsky The Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH) is going to be held next week: – Hackathon : 23rd (Mon) – 26th (Thu) – Symposium : 27th (Fri) Due to several requests, we are arranging U-stream broad-streaming of some programs: – The introduction session (9:00 – 10:30, 23rd) – The grand wrap-up session (15:00 – 18:00, 26th)
