KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
TITLE: "Word Embeddings for all the World's Languages"
ABSTRACT:
Building systems which understand natural language remains a challenging task, and typically requires language-specific features and preprocessing. Every new language added to such a system creates additional requirements and typically requires an individual who has familiarity with the language under consideration.
But recent advancements in unsupervised feature learning presents an intriguing alternative. Instead of relying on expert knowledge, these approaches automatically generate task-independent features (or word embeddings) from large amounts of plain text. However, training these models requires a significant computation, and most of the work to date has focused on English language models.
We present Polyglot, a publicly-available repository of word embeddings we have generated for over 100 languages trained on their corresponding Wikipedias. Polyglot represents a valuable resource for those seeking to build multilingual systems, allowing their models to take advantage of pretrained features which have been generated consistently across all of the world's widely used languages.
To demonstrate the utility of our word embeddings, we use them as the sole features in training part of speech taggers for several languages. We find their performance to be competitive with near state-of-art methods in English, Danish and Swedish. We also observe a marked increase in the performance of models using our embeddings versus equivalent models trained without them.
In this talk, we will introduce the notion of word embeddings and the deep learning techniques we use to construct them. We qualitatively demonstrate that they capture semantic features across languages through the proximity of word groupings. Finally, we demonstrate that they can be effectively used to build named entity recognition and sentiment analysis systems in these languages.
This is joint work with Rami Al-Rfou and Bryan Perozzi.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Professor Steven Skiena is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. His research interests include the design of graph, string, and geometric algorithms, and their applications (particularly to biology). He is the author of five books, including "The Algorithm Design Manual" and "Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win". He is co-founder and Chief Scientist at General Sentiment (www.generalsentiment.com), a media measurement company based on his Lydia text/sentiment analysis system.
Professor Skiena received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1988, and the author of over 130 technical papers. He is a former Fulbright scholar, and recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award and the IEEE Computer Science and Engineer Teaching Award. More info at www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena.
TITLE: "The IEEE Xplore Digital Library: Insider Tips and What's New"
ABSTRACT:
George Plosker, IEEE Client Services Manager will present a fast-paced "insider talk" on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Learn how to:
- Review the technical literature effectively by constructing successful search strategies for precise results
- Share IEEE content to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Locate information on companies or organizations using author affiliation
- Stay current by setting-up personalization in IEEE Xplore to use alerts and saved searches
- Find best papers by using "Sort by Most Cited"
- Plus, learn what IEEE Xplore can do that Google can't!
The talk will also include "What's New" with the IEEE Xplore Digital Library including HTML articles, personal Folders, new author search, download of metadata to spreadsheets,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
George currently serves as a Client Services Manager for the IEEE. He is based in Silicon Valley, California. George’s responsibilities include training engineers, librarians, end-users, regional sales staff, and international dealers in effective use of IEEE electronic information products through on-site visits, phone support, email support, and internet conferencing. In addition, George represents IEEE at conferences and other information industry events.
Plosker is a recognized industry leader and expert in the areas of knowledge management and the use of peer-reviewed content to provide a positive impact on scholarly advance, innovation, technical development, and business results. This includes increasing the productivity of research and project teams via effective collaboration and intelligence sharing.
He has authored more than 30 professional papers in these areas and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. George’s expertise also includes constructing optimal search strategies to obtain content that is relevant and precise to the specific problem or need.
George has a BA from Queens College in Political Science/Communications and a MLIS from San Jose State University.
In 2007, San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) named George one of its “40 most influential alumni.” Plosker was one of a few industry executives to be honored, including librarians, authors, and educators who have had a “profound impact in both the public and private sectors.”
TITLE: "Leadership of ICT for Creative Economy"
ABSTRACT:
South Korean economy has been improved quite steadily during the last 60 years after Korean conflict between North Korea and South Korea.
Among various reasons, leadership from the top, cultural background, and ICT development.
ICT development has been the pivotal role for the economic success of recent South Korea,
Several success factors will be presented.
President Park initiated "creative" economy as her key policy. Science, technology, and ICT will play the key role to support creative economy. "Creative Economy' with ICT will be described.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
EDUCATION
B.S. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, (Electrical Engineering), Feb. 1971
M.S. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., U.S.A., More School of Electrical Engineering (System Engineering), Dec. 1976
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., U. S. A. (System Engineering), Aug. 1980
EMPLOYMENT & EXPERIENCE
Sep. 1980 - Dec. 1983 : Member of Technical Staff, Digital, Transmission Laboratory, Bell, Telephone Laboratory
Jan. 1984 - Aug. 1985 : Member of Technical staff, Interoffice, Technology Center, Bell Communications, Research
Aug. 1985 - Apr. 1990 : Executive Managing Director in charge of R&D and Manufacturing for Daeyoung Electronics
May 1990 - Dec. 1991 : President, Dongjin Datacom
Sep. 1991 - Present : Founder, President of Modacom
ACADEMIC & EDUCATION ACTIVITY
Jan. 2002 – Present : Adjunct Professor of Yanbian University (Science & Technology)
Mar. 2002 – Feb. 2004 : Dean of Dongseo University (Software)
Nov. 2004 – Present : Member of NAEK (The National Academy of Engineering of Korea)
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Dr. Vaidas Giedrimas
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email: vaigie@mi.su.lt
Department of Informatics at Siauliai University, Lithuania
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TITLE: "Distributed Systems for Software Engineering: Non-traditional Approach"
ABSTRACT:
Often software engineering is considered in distributed systems (Grid and cloud computing) context as a serving part. In this presentation opposite point of view is presented - to consider software engineering as a ”client”, and to use distributed computing power to solve particular software engineering problems. It is argued that software engineering has several areas where the big amount of the computations is required: formal methods for software synthesis from the services, formal methods for the verification of the software, model checking etc. The conceptual framework for software synthesis using distributed computing is presented as an example of feasibility of proposed idea.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Vaidas Giedrimas holds PhD from Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania in Informatics. He is associate professor of Department of Informatics at Siauliai University, Lithuania. His research interests include Distributed software systems (grid and cloud computing, component-based software engineering, service-oriented architecture) and methodologies of automated software development. He is the member of the Management committee of COST Action IC1201 Behavioural Types For Reliable Large-Scale Software Systems (BETTY) and Lithuanian representative at NorduGrid and Baltic-HPC associations. The speaker is known by his universality and possibility to combine ideas from various domains and organize interdisciplinary research.
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