People Pattern Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Professor Jason Baldridge will be presenting the topic of “Disambiguating Explicit and Implicit Geographic References in Natural Language” at The 2016 Machine Learning Conference in Seattle on Friday, May 20, 2016.
Here is the Abstract
When people speak, both they and their utterances are situated in place and time. Our utterances reflect where we are from, where we are right now, and what we are talking about. They also reflect many other things, including personality, social status, and the topics under discussion. As hearers, we naturally incorporate locational awareness into our understanding of what we are told. That is to say, we geographically ground the meaning of natural language utterances.
In this talk, Professor Baldridge will discuss both toponym resolution (e.g., identifying which Springfield is intended in a passage) and general text geolocation—deriving geographical gists from free-running text that perhaps has no explicit mentions of places. Supervised and semi-supervised methods for solving these tasks will be covered. He’ll also briefly discuss how this work might generalize the now commonplace treatment of words-as-vectors into computational models of word meaning that use multi-dimensional representations over words, geography, time, and images.
We encourage you to attend Professor Baldridge’s talk at The 2016 Seattle Machine Learning Conference. The conference takes place at the Columbia Tower Club located at 701 Fifth Avenue Columbia Center 76th Floor, Seattle, WA 98104. If you would like a copy of his presentation, please DM your email address to @peoplepattern on Twitter.
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