Today Filip Ilievski, the second of 6 PhD’s is going to defend his thesis, entitled: “Identity of Long-Tail Entities in Text”. Recent incidents witness that digital identity can easily be confused, stolen, or abused. Consider, for instance, the case of the former Brittish MP, Lord Alistair McAlpine, who was falsely accused of child abuse due READ MORE
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The Meaning of Word Sense Disambiguation Research
After five years of my Spinoza project Understanding-Language-By-Machines, I am very pleased to inform you that today the first of 6 PhD’s is going to defend his thesis, entitled: “The meaning of word-sense-disambiguation research”, by Marten Postma. A fascinating report that reflects on more than 15 years of research to understand the meaning of language. READ MORE
VU-robot Leolani in Computable Future Lab
Piek Vossen invited by ict-magazine Computable for a keynote together with Pepper robot Leolani at Infosecurity.nl, a trade fair and congress about IT security, data management and cloud computing. READ MORE
Talking with Robots: Weekend of Science 2018
Talking with Robots: Children between the ages of 8 and 14 years old introduced themselves to Pepper robot Leolani, asked questions, presented objects and practiced their English during Weekend of Science. READ MORE
Keynote lecture 2018 PhD Day Groningen
Piek Vossen invited keynote speaker at the 7th edition of the PhD Day Groningen, Friday September 21st 2018 in the Oosterpoort in Groningen. READ MORE
Video keynote: Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2018), Brno
Video recording of keynote Prof. dr. Piek Vossen at: Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD), 12 September 2018 Brno, Czech Republic: Leolani: a Reference Machine…. Continue reading → READ MORE
A Reference Machine with a Theory of Mind for Social Communication
Our first Pepper robot ‘Leolani‘ publication: P. Vossen, S. Báez, L. Bajčetić, and B. Kraaijeveld, “Leolani: a reference machine with a theory of mind for social communication”, invited keynote speech, in Proceedings of TSD 2018, Brno READ MORE