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KMi invites external speakers to present their work to the lab. We also welcome approaches from researchers who are interested to present their work. Please contact either the KMi staff member who is working in your field, or the seminars coordinator, Anna De Liddo.
Events take place at the KMi Podium (Berrill Building, 4th Floor North) unless otherwise stated.
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Future Events
Blockchains as a Component of the Next Generation Internet
Blockchains are best known as the technological underpinning for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency highlighted for its potential to revolutionise the financial world. For example, a World Economic Forum survey in 2015 found that those polled believe that...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 14:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 31 October 2017
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Learning word representations with deep learning
Learning word representations from unsupervised methods has been recently extensively explored. However the studied methods have been limited to methods based on co-occurrence statistics or windowed bag-of-word shallow neural networks. These...
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Webcast time: 11:30
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 October 2017
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Mining MOOCs to assist second language learners
MOOCs claim to offer access to affordable, quality education to
Organisation: University of Waikato
Webcast time: 11:00
Webcast date: Thursday 28 September 2017
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Incidental or influential: Challenges in automatic detection of citation importance
This work looks in depth at several studies that have attempted to automate the process of citation importance classification based on the publications' full text. We analyse a range of features that have been previously used in this task....
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Webcast time: 11:30
Webcast date: Thursday 21 September 2017
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Past Events
Robot capabilities and models or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robotics
Complex robotic systems integrating advanced hardware components and sophisticated algorithms are nowadays gaining in popularity, thanks to the widespread use of robotic middlewares such as the Robot...
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Webcast date: Friday 14 July 2017
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Supporting the discoverability of Open Educational Resources
This talk will briefly present my PhD research, aiming to contribute solutions to support educators in their exploratory search of (Open) Educational Resources. As a first step, a taxonomy of OER search-related tasks was developed, based on a...
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Webcast date: Monday 26 June 2017
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Civic Intelligence in Uncertain and Threatening Times
Civic intelligence is the capacity for individuals and groups to address shared problems equitably and efficiently. The still-evolving theory of civic intelligence suggests a strong hypothesis: That the survival and quality of life of a...
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Webcast date: Friday 23 June 2017
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Data provenance and trustworthiness assessment in photo archives
Art Historical Photo Archives are making their first steps in the Semantic Web. An ontology capable to represent the domain is still under development. Merging information from different data sources will highlight contradictory pieces of...
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Webcast date: Wednesday 31 May 2017
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Sentiment Analysis for Arabizi: A multilingual jargon in Social Media
Arabizi is a portmanteau for the words Arabic and Englizi (meaning English), it is a linguistic phenomenon where Arab natives express their dialectal mother tongue in Latinscript text using alphanumeral to represent Arabic phonemes that are...
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Webcast date: Thursday 25 May 2017
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