Events
Lecture
Mag. Susanne Hoefler und Dr. Friedrich Neubarth, OFAI, Wien
LEGO-Bauanleitungen für Blinde und Sehbehinderte – eine spezielle Herausforderung für die Sprachtechnologie
LEGO stellt auf Anregung eines Blinden, Matthew Shrifrin, nun seit einem Jahr sprachliche Bauanleitungen zur Verfuegung, damit auch Blinde und Sehbehinderte an der Welt der …
Lecture
Dr. Arthur Flexer, OFAI, Wien
Discovering X Degrees of Keyword Separation in a Fine Arts Collection
OFAI's Arthur Flexer will give a semi-virtual lecture on “Discovering X Degrees of Keyword Separation in a Fine Arts Collection” at the Austrian Research Institute …
Lecture
Prof. Bob Sturm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
On horses in machine learning
A "horse" is a system that is not actually addressing the problem it appears to be solving. The inspiration for the metaphor is the real-life …
Lecture
Prof. Bob Sturm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Folk the algorithms - Music at the frontiers of artificial creativity and criticism
In this talk/musical performance, I will recount how a bit of Saturday morning humor turned into an ERC Consolidator Grant four years later. It …
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Dr. Sallam Abualhaija, University of Luxembourg
Natural language processing in the eyes of software engineers
Natural language (NL) is prevalent in the Requirements Engineering (RE) field (a major subfield in Software Engineering). RE is embedded within a diverse organizational context …
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Dr. Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Classifying verbal autopsy records by cause of death using neural networks and temporal reasoning
It is important for public health planning and resource allocation for authorities to have statistics on the varying causes of death in each region. But …
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Dr. Tristan Miller, OFAI, Wien
Recognizing and interpreting wordplay with computational semantics
How do computers determine the meaning of individual words in a text, and what challenges do they face with deliberately ambiguous usages such as puns …
Lecture
Dr. Klaus Stiefel, Quezon City, Philippines
Why is there no successful brain simulation (yet)?
With the advent of powerful parallel computers, efforts have commenced to simulate complete mammalian brains. However, so far none of these efforts has produced outcomes …
Lecture
Dr. Tristan Miller, OFAI, Wien
Computational pun-derstanding: Towards the computer-assisted translation of humorous wordplay
The translation of wordplay is one of the most extensively researched problems in translation studies, but it has attracted little attention in the fields of …
Lecture
Dr. Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacon, OFAI, Wien
Computational modeling of expressive music performance with linear and non-linear basis function models
This talk gives an overview of the Basis Function Models (BMs), a family of computational models of expressive music performance. The motivation for this work …