[Colloquium] 4/8 Research at TTIC: Kevin Gimpel, TTIC

[Mary Marre]

When:     Friday, April 8th at noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:      Kevin Gimpel, TTIC

Title:       Learning Concise Representations of Textual Knowledge


Abstract:
Knowledge bases and other curated resources offer a wealth of potential
value for artificial intelligence, especially for natural language
understanding applications.  These resources often consist of large sets of
manually-entered fragments of knowledge in textual format, and are
typically constructed manually over a period of many years.  They contain a
great deal of useful information with a high degree of precision, but lack
coverage, especially for emergent textual genres and domains.  I will
discuss our recent research in learning to represent the knowledge in such
resources using parametric models based on neural networks.  In particular,
I will discuss learning representations of ConceptNet, a manually-developed
resource of commonsense knowledge, and of the Paraphrase Database, an
automatically-developed resource of paraphrase pairs.


This is joint work with John Wieting, Xiang Li, Aynaz Taheri, Lifu Tu,
Mohit Bansal, and Karen Livescu.


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Mary C. Marre
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