[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Apple -- Chenyan Xiong -- March 06

[Adams Wei Yu]

A gentle reminder that the talk will be tomorrow (Tuesday) noon in *NSH
1507*

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 4:30 AM, Adams Wei Yu <weiyu at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear faculty and students,
>
> We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday, March 06, at noon in *NSH
> 1507* for AI Seminar sponsored by Apple. To learn more about the seminar
> series, please visit the AI Seminar webpage
> <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> On Tuesday,  Chenyan Xiong <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cx/> will give the
> following talk:
>
> Title: Text Representation, Retrieval, and Understanding with Knowledge
> Graphs
>
> Abstract:
>
> Search engines and other information systems have started to evolve from
> retrieving documents to providing more intelligent information access.
> However, the evolution is still in its infancy due to computers' limited
> ability in representing and understanding human language. This talk will
> present my work addressing these challenges with knowledge graphs. The
> first part is about utilizing entities from knowledge graphs to improve
> search. I will discuss how we build better text representations with
> entities and how the entity-based text representations improve text
> retrieval. The second part is about better text understanding through
> modeling entity salience (importance), as well as how the improved text
> understanding helps search under both feature-based and neural ranking
> settings. This talk concludes with future directions towards the next
> generation of intelligent information systems.
>
>
> Bio:
>
> Chenyan Xiong is a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. His
> research lies in the intersection of machine learning and information
> retrieval. His current research focus is on improving text representation
> and understanding in real-world information systems using knowledge graphs
> and neural networks. He is a recipient of Allen Institute for Artificial
> Intelligence research fellowship. Besides publishing papers, he also
> co-organizes NTCIR WWW Tracks about deep learning for search, the first
> SIGIR workshop on knowledge graphs and semantics for text retrieval and
> analysis, and a special issue in Information Retrieval Journal about
> knowledge graph for IR.
>
>
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