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

Yoshua Bengio yoshua.umontreal at gmail.com
Ven 4 Aou 13:42:03 EDT 2017


Starting now!

2017-08-04 13:19 GMT-04:00 Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com>:

> We have a talk in 30 minutes!
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 12:27 PM Junyoung Chung <elecegg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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