Hi,
The next seminar will be given by Luís Sarmento on "Going Neurotic With Neural Word
Embeddings... again!" (see information below).
For logistical reasons only (if you won't be able to do it you are welcome
anyway), we ask you to register for the seminar in the link below, where you
can inform us which type of food you would like to eat:
https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/going-neurotic-with-neural-word-embeddings-again-tickets-36107419263?aff=seminariosmlpb
Please, try to register up to this*Friday 11 am*, so that we can guarantee
lunch for everyone.
Thanks,
Pedro Balage
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TALK ANNOUNCEMENT --*Anfiteatro do Complexo Interdisciplinar*
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Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminar
Speaker: Luís Sarmento (Tonic App)
Venue: IST Alameda, Anfiteatro do Complexo Interdisciplinar
Date: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
Time: 13:00
Lunch will be provided
*Title:*
Going Neurotic With Neural Word Embeddings... again!
*Abstract:*
Word embeddings, such as Word2Vec or Glove, are vector representations that
capture lexical-semantic properties of words. They constitute a practical way
for transferring knowledge between two machine learning models, and they
contribute to greatly reducing the learning time required for solving various
NLP tasks. There is great practical interest in experimenting with different
word embedding models.
Neural-based models, due to their flexibility, are a great framework for that
experimentation. However, that very same flexibility also brings many degrees
of freedom to the experimentation, which end up becoming a challenge in itself.
In this talk, we will present Syntagma, a python toolkit (still under
development) that enables rapid experimentation of neural word embedding
models. We will present preliminary results of experimenting with some of the
hyper-parameters of a baseline word embedding model (similar to Word2Vec), and
we will discuss the next steps for Syntagma.
*Short Bio:*
Luis Sarmento holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Porto (2010),
with background in Electrical Engineering (Bs+MsC) and Artificial Intelligence
(MsC). He has been working in the fields of Natural Language / Search for about
15 years, both as a member of research groups at the University of Porto and in
the industry. In 2010 he joined Portugal Telecom / SAPO as tech lead for
Big-Data and Recommender Systems, and in 2012 he joined Amazon where, until
early 2017, he lead research teams in the fields of Query Understanding and
Voice Shopping. He in now CTO of Tonic App (http://www.tonicapp.com/), a
startup developing productivity tools for medical doctors.
*Eventbrite:*
https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/going-neurotic-with-neural-word-embeddings-again-tickets-36107419263?aff=seminariosmlpb
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