i-Free announces the program for the conference "AINL: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language"

On the first conference day, following papers will be presented: "Irony detection in social media" by Paolo Rosso, Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València; "Programming language is not an island: word sense alignment of lexical-semantic resources" by Irina Gurevich, Professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt; "ABBYY InfoExtractor: technology of development of the domain-specific information retrieval systems" by Anatoly Starostin, ABBYY; "Classifier of short texts with the application of vector representation of words" by Ilya Melnikov, Yandex; "Translation from the Russian into Russian, or application of machine translation technologies to the tasks of web-search" by Igor Andreev, Mail.ru.

Besides, during the first day the representatives of "Skolkovo" Renat Batyrov and Albert Efimov will give a presentation on tech park opportunities and promising researches in the domain of robotics and artificial intelligence that are currently effectuated in Skolkovo.

The first conference day will be concluded with a round table for the creation of Russian WordNet. Pavel Braslavsky, Head of Kontur Labs at SKB "Kontur", will moderate the round table.

On the second conference day, following papers will be presented: "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Interactive Systems and Robots" by Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Heriot-Watt University; "Creation of software agents for the "Internet of Things" by Anton Kolonin, Webstructor; "How to distinguish a robot from human in a dialogue" by Anna Vlasova and Kirill Zorkiy, "Nanosematics"; "IBM Watson: latent interactions detection" by Artyom Seminikhin, IBM; "Autonomous system for Russian speech recognition" by Nikolay Buzurnyuk, "IntelLex"; "Intelligent Assistant of Lexy" by Dmitry Suvorov, "Vikron"; "Unimodal speech interfaces: problems and prospects" by Vladislav Maraev, CRT; "Organization of dialogue in the system of communication in natural language" by Serguey Ulasen, Eugene Goostman chat bot.

During the demo session, such companies as ABBYY, Aigents, Molva.spb.ru, Naumen, "I-Teco", "Morpher.ru", and "Nanosemantics" will present their projects, while InfoQubes, Kazan Federal University, Perm State University, St.Petersburg State University, Tyumen State University, National Research University – Higher School of Economics will take part in the poster session.

Detailed program of the conference is published on the website. To take part in AINL 2014 please register.

Latest achievements in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and robotics will be discussed in Russia.

On September 12-13, a scientific and engineering conference "AINL: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language" will take place in "Skolkovo" Innovation Center. It is arranged by i-Free and NLP Seminar together with "Skolkovo" foundation. Conference sponsor: Yandex. Event partner: IT-Sobytie. Conference information partners: "Control Engineering Russia" magazine, industry web portals allCIO, Apps4All, ICT-Online, IT-weekly, IT-world, Telecomblog, BusFace, ProContent.

i-Free introduces key speakers of "AINL: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language" conference.

This year, world leading experts in the domain of artificial language will deliver speeches at the conference: Paolo Rosso, Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), expert in automated text processing and social media analysis; Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, Senior Research Fellow the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University (UK), expert in spoken dialogue systems and human-robot interaction; Irina Gurevich, Professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany), expert in knowledge management and language resources.

Dr. Paolo Rosso, being a subject matter expert in social media linguistic analysis, will present a paper on the "Irony Detection in Social Media". Dr. Heriberto Cuayáhuitl will tell about the current projects realized in his laboratory, which is involved in the development of smart dialogue systems. His paper is entitled "Enhanced Learning for Interactive Systems and Robots".

Dr. Irina Gurevich will present a paper "Programming language is not an island: Word Sense Alignment of Lexical-Semantic Resources». She describes word sense alignment as a fundamental task to combine LSRs and exploit their strengths in a complementary manner. In word sense alignment, the term’s word senses (e.g. Java as a programming language) with synonymous meanings in different resources have to be aligned and distinguished from the term’s other meanings (e.g. Java as an island).

Heriberto Cuayáhuitl, a researcher at Heriot-Watt University (UK), is a first-time presenter at AINL 2014.

Mr. Cuayáhuitl will talk about his laboratory’s current projects dedicated to the development of AI dialog systems. The topic of his presentation is “Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Interactive Systems and Robots.”

You can register for the conference here.