António Branco
报告题目:Hype cycles in Language Technology, and what we can learn from them
时间:2018年1月23日10:00—11:00
地点:天赐庄校区本部理工楼321室
摘要:Despite its relatively short period of existence
as a scientific area, natural language processing has gone through a succession
of diverse mainstream research paradigms. How similar are these inflection
moments in the history of the research on language technology?
What can we learn from that similarity, if any, about the overall shape of the
evolution of this field? And importantly, what can we anticipate from this
shape, if any, about the future and emerging trends in language
technology? The result of this study is meant to be of help to organize
research agendas of centers, laboratories and individual researchers and
innovators, as well as to guide informed institutional funding and support for
research and innovation in language technology.
个人简介:António Branco is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Faculty of Sciences, Department of Informatics, where he is the Head of the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group. He is Director General of CLARIN Portugal, the national research infrastructure for the science and technology of the Portuguese language. He is serving also as a member of the Board of ELRA European Language Resources Association, as a member of the Executive Board of META-NET European Network of Excellence for Language Technology, and as the Chair of Steering Committee of the PROPOR Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language conferences. António Branco (co-)authored more than 200 papers and participated in over 25 R&D projects, of which was the coordinator of 10, two of them international. With Deyi Xiong (University of Soochow), he is presently coordinating the interchange project CNPTDeepMT in the area of Artificial Intelligence, namely on Deep Machine Translation between Chinese and Portuguese.