2018 IEEE SEM Fall Section Conference - “IMAGINE THE FUTURE: DEVELOPING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section
Keynote Address
The Ups and Downs of Word Embeddings
Rada Mihalcea and Laura Wendlandt
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Our Sponsor: VisTaTech - Schoolcraft College - 18600 Haggerty Rd Livonia MI
Words are the central units of the languages we all speak. In a similar way, word representations are the core units of algorithms that we build to automatically process language. These representations form the foundation for many applications of natural language processing, ranging from question answering systems, to chat bots, search engines, or systems for machine translation. In this talk, we will take a deep dive into word embeddings — a popular way of representing words with the help of neural networks trained on very large collections of texts. In particular, we will address two aspects of word embeddings. First, we will take a close look at their stability, and show that even relatively high frequency words are often unstable. We will provide empirical evidence for how various factors contribute to the stability of word embeddings, and analyze the effects of stability on downstream tasks. Second, we will explore the relation between words and people and show how we can develop cross-cultural word representations to identify words with cultural influence – i.e., words that are used in significantly different ways by speakers from different cultures. Further, we will also show how we can effectively use information about the speakers of a word (i.e., their gender, culture) to build better word representations.
This is joint work with Carmen Banea, Aparna Garimella, and Jonathan K. Kummerfeld.
***Photo by Drew Graham on Unsplash
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- Date: 03 Nov 2018
- Time: 09:30 AM to 02:00 PM
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Conference Chair: David Werden
Conference Co-Chair: Irina Sullivan
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- Starts 12 September 2018 06:52 PM
- Ends 03 November 2018 05:00 PM
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Speakers
Rada Mihalcea
Biography:
Rada Mihalcea is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, multilingual natural language processing, and computational social sciences. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Journals of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluations, Natural Language Engineering, Research in Language in Computation, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She was a program co-chair for the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2011) and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2009), and a general chair for the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2015). She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award (2008) and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009). In 2013, she was made an honorary citizen of her hometown of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Laura Wendlandt
Biography:
Laura Wendlandt is a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, working with Dr. Rada Mihalcea. Her research interests include natural language processing and machine learning. She is currently serving as co-chair for the Student Research Workshop at the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, as well as co-chair for a2-dlearn, Ann Arbor’s annual deep learning symposium.
Agenda
Registration Fee Schedule:
Early Online Registration ends October 13
Late Online Registration ends October 28 (deadline for meal orders)
Day-Of / In-Person Registration Available - Credit Cards Only (No Cash or Checks).
Conference Attendee Fees: Early / Late
Students/Retired/Unemployed (Members).........$25 / $35
IEEE, SWE, and ESD Members ........................$45 / $60
Non Members ...............................................$60 / $80
Student Table Sponsor (8 students)..................$250
Silver Sponsorship Registration*.......................$500
Gold Sponsorship Registration*.........................$1000
Platinum Sponsorship Registration*...................$2000
Diamond Sponsorship Registration*...................$3000
MEETING AGENDA
TIME |
SESSION |
9:30AM - 9:57AM |
Registration / Breakfast / Networking / Posters |
9:57AM |
Welcome & Opening Remarks: David Werden and Irina Sullivan (Conference Co-Chairs) |
10:00AM-10:30AM |
Speaker #1: Veronica Perez-Rosas, "Automatic Detection of Fake News" |
10:30AM-11:00AM |
Speaker #2: Sharan Kalwani, "Symbiotic Relationship and Growth of Computing and Perceived Intelligence" |
11:00AM- 11:30AM |
Speaker #3: Aisha Yousuf, "Building Blocks for a Successful Data Science Group" |
11:30AM-12:00PM |
Speaker #4: Bob Neff, "AI in Autonomous Vehicles" |
12:00PM- 1:00PM |
Lunch |
12:30PM- 1:00PM |
SEM Leadership & Volunteer Thanks |
1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Conference Keynote Address: Rada Mihalcea and Laura Wendlandt |
2:00PM |
Closing Remarks: David Werden and Irina Sullivan (Conference Co-Chairs) |
Call for Posters
Abstract Submission: by October 20, 2018 | Poster Abstract Submission Form
Acceptance Notice: by October 23, 2018 | Free Registration for the Primary Poster Author
The suggested poster size is 4 feet by 3 feet, and should contain large text to be read from a distance. Poster authors should attend and present their posters during the Poster Session and Student Competition on the day of the conference. Free Registration for the Primary Poster Author (Please wait to get more information after submitting poster request). All the additional student authors for a particular poster needs to be registered as a Student Poster with a $25 Fee and every participant will receive a Certificate of Participation along with the top 3 winners of the competition.
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