Written by Alexander Raginsky 2nd Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&LSS 2016): Deep Learning 21?24 March 2016, University of Malta, Malta Organised by ICT COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) – Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data About iV&L Net:
Written by Alexander Raginsky PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT iV&LSS 2016: Deep Learning The 2nd Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language 21?24 March 2016, University of Malta, Malta Organised by ICT COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) – Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data
Written by Alexander Raginsky NAACL 2016 Student Research Workshop (SRW) CALL FOR PAPERS ### NAACL 2016 Student Research Workshop (SRW) ### The SRW workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2016 in Diego, California. Main conference: June 13-15, 2016 Paper Submission Deadline: March 11, 2016 (11:59pm PST) ### General Invitation for Submission #### The Student Research Workshop
Written by Alexander Raginsky Microsoft Research and the Carnegie Mellon University have created a computer that can analyse a situation and answer multi-layered questions, according to a blog post. A multi-layered question is just that: A question with multiple elements that rely on each other. An example could be “What is in the basket?” In order to understand the
Written by Alexander Raginsky We are pleased to announce availability of a limited number of Student Grants for attending FIRE 2015. This includes Student Travel Grants and Lower Registration rates for Student participants, details of which are mentioned at http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/student_grants. The deadline for application is 25th November. Applicants shall be notified about the decision by 28th November. Priority will
Written by Alexander Raginsky Natural language processing, or NLP, is the machine handling of written and spoken human communications. Methods draw on linguistics and statistics, coupled with machine learning, to model language in the service of automation. OK, that was a dry definition. Fact is, NLP is at, or near, the core of just about every information-intensive process out
Written by Alexander Raginsky This course provides an introduction to the field of Natural Language Processing. It includes relevant background material in Linguistics, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Some of the topics covered in the class are Text Similarity, Part of Speech Tagging, Parsing, Semantics, Question Answering, Sentiment Analysis, and Text Summarization. The course includes quizzes, programming assignments in
Written by Alexander Raginsky Presentation The quantitative analysis of textual data is an object of research in many sectors of linguistics, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics and it is used as a research tool within a number of disciplines such as psychology, sociology, sociolinguistics, education, history, political studies, communication and media studies. The recent evolution of information technologies (IT)
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Big Data and cross-language processing can be a very happy marriage that will open way to the new generation of powerful multilingual product. However, what is missing to let it happen already? What is the profile of the individual who will bring the multlingual Big Data to life? Read about it below. Big Data is a
Written by Alexander Raginsky CareerBuilder announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in Textkernel, a leading-edge software company providing semantic recruitment technology to the global market. The acquisition further supports CareerBuilder’s evolution into an HR software as a service provider and enables Textkernel to accelerate its global growth.Based in Amsterdam, Textkernel is leading innovation in the field
