15 February: DCLRS -- Ger Lynch, Friday, February 17, 16:00 (TCD Hamilton
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Friday of this week (February 17), at 16:00, in the Salmon Lecture
Theatre (Hamilton Building, Lecture Theatre 1) (TCD), Dr. Gerard Lynch
(Babylon Health, London UK) speaks on:
The Generation Game: Exploring Natural Language Generation for clinical and
creative purposes
The first half of this talk will discuss some of the challenges which have
arisen in the process of implementing a clinically-focused natural language
generation system at babylon, a leading healthcare startup employing
artificial intelligence for the purposes of offering affordable and
accessible healthcare to all.
The second half of the talk will discuss a personal project examining the
application of language generation in the context of creating topically
relevant creative titles for news articles and other creative pieces of
writing using a range of NLP techniques.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Gerard Lynch is Natural Language Processing Specialist at Babylon
Health (London, United Kingdom). He is formerly a researcher within
CeADAR at UCD and within the Centre for Next Generation Localisation.
Dr. Lynch earned his PhD working within the Computational Linguistics
Group of the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity
College Dublin.
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The Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar series is a
cooperation among Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University,
University College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology, a
long standing collaboration which overlaps with the SFI CNGL/ADAPT
centres.
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