2 April: DCLRS -- Francesca Bonin, Friday, April 5, 16:00 (TCD Arts Building
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Friday of this week (April 5, 2019), at 16:00, in room 3074 of the
Arts Building (TCD), Dr Francesca Bonin will speak.
Title:
The Debater experience: a journey into argumentation mining
Abstract:
Recently, computational argumentation has attracted a lot of attention
within the NLP community. In this talk, I will first give a short
overview of the field. Then I will present IBM Project Debater, an IBM
AI challenge specifically focused on argumentation mining. I will show
brief extracts of the final demonstration where IBM Debater debates
with a human being, focusing on capturing the NLP challenges of the
system.
Finally, I will concentrate on one aspect of argumentation mining: pro-con
stance detection, and if time permits, sentiment analysis of idiomatic
expressions.
I will conclude with some ongoing/future work.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Francesca Bonin is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Ireland,
working on AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
She holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing at Trinity College
Dublin (Ireland), a MSc. in Language Technologies (Italy). Her
research interests includes AI, NLP and Cognitive computing, and
currently she is working in the area of health informatics,
specifically Information Extraction from health scientific papers.
In IBM Research AI, she has been part of the Project Debater team,
developing breakthrough AI technologies for the last IBM AI Grand Challenge
(https://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/project-debater/).
She serves the NLP community as program committee member of the main
international conferences in NLP and Speech Technologies.
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The Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar series, hosted
this year by the Trinity Centre for Computing and Language Studies, 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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