[Colloquium] TTIC Talks: Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst

[Liv Leader]

REMINDER:

When:     Wednesday, March 21 @ 11 a.m.

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Room 526

Who:      Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Title: Probabilistic Databases for Large-scale Knowledge-base Construction

Wikipedia’s impact has been revolutionary.  The collaboratively edited
encyclopedia has transformed the way many people learn, browse new
interests, share knowledge and make decisions.  Its information is
mainly represented in natural language text.  However, in many tasks
more structured information is useful because it better supports
pattern analysis and decision-making.  In this talk I will describe
multiple research components necessary to build a large structured
knowledge base, including information extraction with joint inference,
probabilistic databases to manage uncertainty at scale, robust
reasoning about human edits, tight integration of probabilistic
inference and parallel distributed processing, and probabilistic
programming languages for easy specification of complex factor graphs.
 I also hope to discuss application of these methods to scientometrics
and a new publishing model for science research.

Joint work with Michael Wick, Sameer Singh, Karl Schultz, Sebastian
Riedel, Limin Yao, Brian Martin and Gerome Miklau.

Host: Raquel Urtasun, rurtasun at ttic.edu

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