Fwd: LTI Colloquium: Ndapa Nakashole, 11/16/18

[Emily Ahn]

Join us to hear from Ndapa Nakashole (UC San Diego) this Friday!

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Subject: LTI Colloquium: Ndapa Nakashole, 11/16/18
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Who: Ndapa Nakashole

When: Friday, 11/16/18, 2:30

Where: Porter Hall 100

Machine Reading for Everyone  

Machine reading tools such as question answering systems have the potential to accelerate tasks that involve synthesizing information buried in vast text collections. 

Recent advances in training deep neural networks have produced  high performing machine reading models.  However, the current success of deep learning hinges upon having large quantities of labeled data to robustly estimate model parameters. For many languages,  little to no labeled data is available for this. 

A key question is therefore: how can we develop machine reading methods whose performance on new languages is

not contingent upon availability of substantial amounts of labeled data?  In this talk I will present some of our ongoing work on learning representations that are invariant with respect to the shift in language, and can be used for cross-lingual machine reading.

Ndapa Nakashole is an Assistant Professor in CSE, University of California, San Diego. She works in Statistical Natural Language Processing, with an emphasis on machine reading,  and interest in bringing NLP to low resource languages.

Refreshments will be served at 4:00 in the 5th floor kitchen area. 
 
Instructor: Yulia Tsvetkov

Teaching Assistant: Emily Ahn