by kseniaskriptchenko | May 26, 2022 | AI, News, HLT
Machine learning requires large quantities of labeled training data (for more insights, read more in this post). That means, in order to reach acceptable performance, current speech recognition systems training demands thousands of hours of transcribed speech. For...
by kaymacquarrie | Mar 22, 2022 | Meet us @, Uncategorized
When: March 21-23 Where: Brazil (online) What is it? “The 15th edition of the International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2022) will be held at the University of Fortaleza, in Fortaleza, Ceará, in Brazil, from March 21st to...
by kseniaskriptchenko | Mar 1, 2022 | AI, Diversity, News, HLT
Diversity is becoming the new norm according to the German Zukunftsinstitut in its megatrend survey. Megatrends are said to last for at least a decade which means – the topic will stick with us into the 2030s. But let’s start with the basics: what is...
by kaymacquarrie | Feb 15, 2022 | conferences, Meet us @
When: Webinar on 15.2.2022 Where: Online What is it? “The HiPEAC conference is the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for embedded and general-purpose systems.” Plus online...
by Tugtekin Turan | Dec 24, 2021 | News, HLT
What does machine learning in the language field have to do with a cake, you might ask yourself? And how does it come that in the end we can produce better subtitles? Don’t look any further- read on! Let them be cake! Facebook’s AI Director Yann LeCun...
by Pedro Ferreira | Sep 9, 2021 | NER, News, HLT
As the world moves faster, more and more information is generated every day. In order to make sense of such large amounts of information, journalists and media monitors benefit from automatic processes that are capable of extracting entities present in the text....
by guntisbarzdins | Aug 1, 2021 | News, HLT
We all like infoboxes – Google uses them and so does Wikipedia, Bing, and DuckDuckGo. But how do you add infoboxes to your own content? To do so, you first have to distill all your content into a knowledge graph, and then you can link the content to the...
by kseniaskriptchenko | Jul 20, 2021 | News, HLT
Making “sense” of speech with Curriculum Learning Methods Humans need about two decades to be trained as fully functional adults of our society. Quite some time and still pretty fast in contrast to where we are, if we want to copy the learning curve from a human to a...
by kseniaskriptchenko | May 14, 2021 | BIAS, Diversity, News, HLT
Imagine being trapped in a dark room with light switch sensors not acknowledging your presence and the door refusing to open, just because you’re invisible to it. Sounds like a major inconvenience or the beginning of the low-budget horror movie? Sadly, it’s a...
by kaymacquarrie | Feb 14, 2021 | News, HLT
We kicked-off the SELMA project with a three days virtual gathering! SELMA is shaping AI speech and text technologies for media and the newsroom. The project will help media monitors and journalists make sense of huge content streams (big data analysis) – and...
