[Lisa_seminaires] Yacine Jernite, August 4, AA6214, 13:45

Junyoung Chung elecegg at gmail.com
Jeu 3 Aou 12:27:10 EDT 2017


Hi lab,

this is a friendly reminder for tomorrow's tea talk by Yacine Jernite from
NYU. Hope to see many of you tomorrow.

Best,
-Junyoung

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:34 PM Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> our next speaker is Yacine Jernite from NYU.
> The talk will be at AA6214 on August 4, 13:45.
>
> Title: Learning Representations of Language from Text
>
> Abstract:
> Learning good general-purpose representations of written language can be
> useful for a wide range of applications, but there are still a number of
> open questions in the field, from model architecture to learning
> strategies. In this talk, we start by briefly going over these questions,
> then review some recent work related to two of them: the choice of the
> reading level for text data and of a learning objective for unsupervised
> training. First, we describe two recent architectures which look at
> sub-word information to build word and text representations. Then,
> considering the prevalence of language modeling as an unsupervised
> objective, we propose an adaptive hierarchical approach which speeds up
> learning while avoiding some of the pitfalls of comparable methods.
> Finally, we propose an alternative discriminative learning objective for
> sentence representation systems based on discourse modeling.
>
> Bio:
> Yacine is currently pursuing a PhD at NYU in David Sontag's Clinical
> Machine Learning group, where his research interests include graphical
> models, applying machine learning to medical data, and language
> understanding. His current focus is on using unsupervised methods to take
> advantage of the vast amounts of freely available text data when learning
> language representation systems. Yacine holds a Diplome d'ingenieur from
> Ecole Polytechnique (2011) and an M.Sc. in Machine Learning from ENS Cachan
> (2012).
>
> Best,
> --Junyoung
>
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--Junyoung
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