WING NUS Information Retrieval (IR) and Knowledge Organisation (KO) Seminar

In light of the success of the former NLP seminar held by our group, we will be running our another IR seminar in 2021 autumn semester, tentatively from 8th Oct to 17th Dec (6 weeks). Invited speakers will talk about the latest breakthrough in their research. We will have six invited speakers, alternately introduce their research of recommender system and scientific document processing for each two week.

For interested public participants, please send Min an email at kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg.

Schedule

Date	Description
10:00 AM Sep 29th SGT When is SGT?	Hongwei Wang - Graph Representation Learning: From Knowledge Graphs to Recommender Systems Hongwei is a Postdoctoral Researcher @University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
16:00 PM Oct 28th SGT When is SGT?	Oana-Maria Camburu: Neural Networks with Natural Language Explanations Oana is a Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Oxford [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10:00 AM Nov 18th SGT When is SGT?	Yanan Zheng: Revisiting Few-Shot learning for Natural Language Understanding Yanan is a PostDoc Researcher @ Tsinghua University [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10:00 AM Dec 22nd SGT When is SGT?	Xiangyu Zhao: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Recommender Systems Xiangyu Zhao is an Assistant Professor @ City University of Hong Kong (CityU) [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]
10:00 AM Dec 29th SGT When is SGT?	Arman Cohan: Beyond Sentences and Paragraphs: Towards Document-level and Multi-document Understanding Arman Cohan is a research scientist @ Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and an Affiliate Assistant Professor @ University of Washington(UW) [ Speaker's Bio & Talk Overview ]