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Google Summer of Code

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Google Summer of Code (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/)is a global programme which offers student developers stipends to writecode for various open source software projects.  Students work for 3months on a project with mentoring from open source developers, andreceive a stipend which is paid in 3 stages – if they successfullycomplete the project, the full stipend is between US$3000 and US$6600depending on the location of the student’s University (it’s US$5400for the UK). Xapian (https://xapian.org/) is an open source search library, and hasbeen accepted as a mentoring organisation again this year.  We’reparticularly keen to encourage…

[Lecture] Generalized Transition Systems for Natural Language Analysis, ILSP, Athens, 17/10/2016

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“Generalized Transition Systems for Natural Language Analysis“ Ryan McDonald Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Date & Time:  Monday, 17th October, 15:00 Location: “Athena” Research & Innovation Centre, Institute for Language & Speech Processing, Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou, 151 25 Marousi, Greece, Ground Floor, Conference Room Directions: www.ilsp.gr/en/contact/mapilsp —————————— Abstract: Transition-based parsing has become a dominant paradigm in natural language processing (Nivre 2008). Primarily for morphosyntactic analysis, but also for a variety of other tasks from language generation to information extraction. Their popularity stems from their simplicity, efficiency, efficacy and…

The Tony Kent Strix Annual Lecture – Geological Society, London, 31/10/2016

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The 2016 Lecture will be given by Peter Ingwersen, Professor Emeritus at The Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, at the Geological Society in London during the afternoon of Monday 31st October. Professor Ingwersen won the award in 2015. There will be two speakers: following an introductory paper by Stephen Robertson – Search: then and now — with particular reference to the web, in which delegates will hear how we have reached the point at which Google is their primary or even sole entry-point to the…

Google launches new API to help you parse natural language

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Posted yesterday by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) Google today announced the public beta launch of its Cloud Natural Language API, a new service that gives developers access to Google-powered sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and syntax analysis. This new API joins Google’s other pre-trained machine-learning APIs like the Cloud Speech API, which is now also available in public beta, the Vision API and the Translate API. The new Cloud Natural Language API currently supports texts in English, Spanish and Japanese. Google notes that the idea here is to offer a service “that can meet the scale…

Google feeds its AI machines steamy romance novels to improve natural language processing

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Google feeds its AI machines steamy romance novels to improve natural language processing Over the past couple of years, Google has been implementing a number of AI, or machine-learning technologies, in to its products. Whether it’s intuitive search within the Photos app, better automatic thumbnail creation in YouTube, ‘Smart Reply’ in Inbox, or just straight-out beating an 18-time Go world champion, its artificial intelligent brains are being developed and honed. With all of its incredible talent, apparently, there’s still work to be done when it comes to results from neural networks sounding and…