September 2015
RiTUAL Group Meeting: Data-driven Measurement of Child Language Development with Simple Syntactic Templates
Paper for this meeting: Data-driven Measurement of Child Language Development with Simple Syntactic Templates
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Put Yourself in the Shoes of a Sentiment Analysis Tool: The Challenge of Detecting Deceptive Opinions and Irony
Speaker: Prof. Paolo Rosso, Polytechnic University of Valencia With the increasing of social media, consumers rely more than ever on online reviews to make their decisions. A recent survey found that 87% of them have reinforced their decisions to purchase a product due to positive online reviews. At the same time 80% of consumers have changed their minds on the basis of negative information they found online. Therefore, online opinions play an important role for companies and there is an…
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Generating Natural-Language Descriptions of Videos in the Wild
CS Seminar: Prof. Raymond Mooney will be at UH to discuss his research combining image processing and natural language processing.
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Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing: Applications in Schizophrenia Classification using Narrative texts, Authorship Attribution with POS-tagging networks and Sentiment Analysis for Political tweets
Abstract: "In this talk Dr. Héctor Allende-Cid, professor of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, will present 3 cases of his current work of Machine Learning applied to Natural Language Processing tasks. The first one, is based in the classification of schizophrenic patients using transcribed narrative texts. In this work, two main objectives are pursued: using interpretable classification algorithms to describe the patterns that differentiate schizophrenic and control patients, and to achieve the best classification performance measures using Machine…
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