Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Events for December
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NL Seminar-Event Extraction and Reasoning in Multimedia News Data
Thu, Dec 02, 2021 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Manling Li, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Talk Title: Event Extraction and Reasoning in Multimedia News Data
Abstract: Reminder: Meeting hosts only admit guests that they know to the Zoom meeting. Hence, you're highly encouraged to use your USC account to sign into Zoom.
If you are an outside visitor, please inform us at nlg DASH seminar DASH host AT isi DOT edu beforehand so we'll be aware of your attendance and let you in.Event understanding is an essential ability for humans to acquire information. With the rise of multimedia, automated event understanding and narration require machines to not only obtain the local structures of events from multimedia data i.e., who, what, where, and when), but also performs global understanding and inference i.e., what is likely to happen, and why. However, current event understanding is text-only, local, and lacks reasoning. Real events that are multimedia, interconnected, and probabilistic. This talk will present Multimedia Event Extraction to extract events and their arguments from multimedia data, and use event knowledge to enhance multimedia pretraining models. Based on the extracted knowledge, I will introduce how to induce event schemas (knowledge of complex event patterns) by learning a temporal graph model. After that, I will talk about how to use event knowledge to support real applications, such as timeline summarization.
Biography: Manling Li is a fourth year Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department of University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Manling has won the Best Demo Paper Award at ACL 20, the Best Demo Paper Award at NAACL 21, C.L. Dave and Jane W.S. Liu Award, and has been selected as Mavis Future Faculty Fellow. She is a recipient of the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. She has more than 30 publications on knowledge extraction and reasoning from multimedia data.
Host: Jon May and Thamme Gowda
More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: https://youtu.be/MLITKOKIHY0Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only
WebCast Link: https://youtu.be/MLITKOKIHY0
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
USC AI Futures Symposium on AI with Common SenseTue, Dec 07, 2021 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Multiple panelists, USC and collaborators
Talk Title: AI with Common Sense
Series: USC AI Futures Symposium on AI
Abstract: Humans use common sense knowledge to understand how the world works. AI systems still lack common sense knowledge, which is critical in many domains in order to form expectations, manage unexpected situations, and connect with the human experience. This symposium presents an overview of research at USC on acquiring and organizing commonsense knowledge, integrating it into AI systems, and measuring its impact on improving AI system behaviors and interactions with people.
This event is part of the USC AI Futures Symposium Series. Prior events were held in May 2021 with the theme: AI and Data Science, and in January 2021 with the theme: Will AIs Ever Be One of Us?.
Please visit website to register and view updated information https://isi-usc-edu.github.io/USC-CommonSense-Symposium/
Host: Yolanda Gil
Location: Virtual
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lori Weiss/USC ISI
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
USC AI Futures Symposium on AI with Common Sense
Wed, Dec 08, 2021 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Multiple panelists, USC and collaborators
Talk Title: AI with Common Sense
Series: USC AI Futures Symposium on AI
Abstract: Humans use common sense knowledge to understand how the world works. AI systems still lack common sense knowledge, which is critical in many domains in order to form expectations, manage unexpected situations, and connect with the human experience. This symposium presents an overview of research at USC on acquiring and organizing commonsense knowledge, integrating it into AI systems, and measuring its impact on improving AI system behaviors and interactions with people.
This event is part of the USC AI Futures Symposium Series. Prior events were held in May 2021 with the theme: AI and Data Science, and in January 2021 with the theme: Will AIs Ever Be One of Us?.
Please visit website to register and view updated information https://isi-usc-edu.github.io/USC-CommonSense-Symposium/
Host: Yolanda Gil
Location: Virtual
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Lori Weiss/USC ISI
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
