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
— The Heavenly Voice of Leolani – Visiting Piek Vossen
Media and movies like to suggest that robots will take over our jobs, the world and even us. But is this really the case? We ask VU professor Piek Vossen… Continue reading → READ MORE
— 9th Global WordNet Conference Jan. 8—12, 2018
9th Global WordNet Conference Jan. 8—12, 2018 — Hosted by: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Global WordNet Association… Continue reading → READ MORE
— From Reading Machines to Reference Machines
Grounding language for machines: From Reading Machines to Reference Machines, Talk Piek Vossen Department of Language, Literature, and Communication… Continue reading → READ MORE
— Kids Talking with Robots. Workshops: Sat. Oct. 7 2017
Talking with Robots — Weekend of Science Workshop for children between the ages of 10 and 12. Workshop sessions Saturday Oct. 7 2017 12:00-17:00 hrs… Continue reading → READ MORE
— SemEval-2018 Task: Counting Events and Participants in the Long Tail
Marten Postma, Filip Ilievski, and Piek Vossen from CLTL are hosting task 5 at SemEval-2018, entitled “Counting Events and Participants within Highly Ambiguous Data covering a very Long Tail”. This is a “referential quantification” task that requires systems to establish the meaning, reference and identity of events and participants in news articles. The task data (texts READ MORE
— Call for University Research Fellow
Who makes our robots talk? — Call for VU University Research Fellow 2017-2018. Deadline: June 30 2017. Who takes up this challenge… Continue reading → READ MORE