Written by Alexander Raginsky The term “deep learning” was coined in 2006, and refers to machine learning algorithms that have multiple non-linear layers and can learn feature hierarchies [1]. Most modern machine learning relies on feature engineering or some level of domain knowledge to obtain good results. In deep learning systems, this is not the case — instead, algorithms
Written by Alexander Raginsky The University of Washington is hosting the 2015 Jelinek Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology (JSALT), in cooperation with the JHU Center for Speech and Language Processing. We are seeking outstanding members of the current junior class to join a summer research workshop on language engineering from June 22 to August 14, 2015. Please
Written by Alexander Raginsky Wit.ai, the Y Combinator-backed startup that enables developers to add Siri-like language processing to their apps, has been acquired by Facebook. According to a blog post from the startup, Wit.ai is joining the social network, though its “platform will remain open and become entirely free for everyone,” it says. Wit.ai’s API lets developers add voice
Written by Alexander Raginsky Automated Insights — the Durham, North Carolina-based startup backed by the Associated Press, Samsung and Steve Case that has built technology to automatically take raw data and translate it into narratives that look like they’ve been written by a human — has been acquired by the $14 billion private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and
Written by Alexander Raginsky While being passionate about all the ways the language finds its way in technology – as the new user interface input via speech recognition, or with natural language understanding, I have special feelings about machine translation being my first step to linguistic technologies. Recently I have read about an excellent and innovative case for machine
Written by Alexander Raginsky 11th VIPS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Verona (Italy) 19-21 May 2014
Written by Alexander Raginsky Imagine your company has just launched a new product: the Acme iSolution. You’ve got an ad campaign under way and you want to know how people are reacting. That would make you a good candidate for sentiment analysis, a set of technologies that can tell you whether discussions on social networks are generally positive or
Written by Alexander Raginsky Share your experience with us! We would like to invite you to share your experience with us by becoming a contributor. Topics we are thinking to cover include, but not limited to the following: – job hunting in industry, – job hunting in academia, – relationship between business and higher education in your country, –
Written by Alexander Raginsky 21th Match 2013, Amsterdam – NLP People, the job board for graduates and professionals in language technology and related areas, announces a partnership with two leading online resources for natural language processing and language technology. The NLPPeople.com job feed will be represented at the LT-Innovate and Cilenis NLP hub , leading news resources for the language technology industry
Written by Alexander Raginsky New platform for our blog Since Posterous is closing down on April 30, 2013 we moved our blog to Tumblr. You can find it at http://www.tumblr.com/blog/nlppeople.
