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High School Counselor Conference
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 08:30 AM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This full-day program will introduce high school counselors, independent counselors and CBOs that serve high school students, to USC's admission and financial aid practices and include: presentations by several of our academic units; tours of campus; and a luncheon with USC admission, financial aid and academic unit representatives.
RSVP HereLocation: Town & Gown (TGF) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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W.V.T. RUSCH ENGINEERING HONORS COLLOQUIUM
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ellen Feldman, Fall 2013 Colloquium Moderator and PhD Candidate, California Institute of Technology
Talk Title: Treating Spinal Cord Injury via Electrical Spinal Cord Stimulation
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Su Stevens
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2nd Annual Undergraduate Open House
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Student Activity
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Cathy Huang
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine
Talk Title: Compound and Concurrent Climate Extremes: Detection, Modeling and Risk Analysis
More Information: AghaKouchak announcement.pdf
Location: Waite Phillips Hall Of Education (WPH) - B27
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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NL Seminar-1. IMPROVING LOW RESOURCE NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION 2. LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT TRANSLATION OF OUT OF VOCABULARY WORDS
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Nelson Liu and Leon Cheung, USC/ISI
Talk Title: 1. IMPROVING LOW RESOURCE NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION 2. LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT TRANSLATION OF OUT OF VOCABULARY WORDS
Series: Natural Language Seminar
Abstract: 1. Statistical models have outperformed neural models in machine translation, until recently, with the introduction of the sequence to sequence neural model. However, this model's performance suffers greatly when starved of bilingual parallel data. This talk will discuss several strategies that try to overcome this low resource challenge, including modifications to the sequence to sequence model, transfer learning, data augmentation, and the use of monolingual data.
2. Neural machine translation is effective for language pairs with large datasets, but falls short to traditional methods e.g. phrase or syntax-based machine translation in the low resource setting. However, these classic approaches struggle to translate out of vocabulary tokens, a limitation that is amplified when there is little training data. In this work, we augment a syntax-based machine translation system with a module that provides translations of out of vocabulary tokens. We present several language-independent strategies for translation of unknown tokens, and benchmark their accuracy on an intrinsic out of vocabulary translation task across a typologically diverse dataset of sixteen languages. Lastly, we explore the effects of using the module to add rules to a syntax-based machine translation system on overall translation quality.
Biography: Leon Cheung is a second year undergraduate from UC San Diego. This summer he has been working with Jon May and Kevin Knight to improve neural machine translation for low resource languages.
Nelson Liu is an undergraduate at the University of Washington, where he works with Professor Noah Smith. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing. Previously, he worked at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence on machine comprehension. He is currently a summer intern at ISI working with Professors Kevin Knight and Jonathan May.
Host: Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin Knight
More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Peter Zamar
Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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PwC Tech Talk presented by CybOrg
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Workshops & Infosessions
PwC, in conjunction with the Cyber Security & Forensics Organization, is hosting a PwC Tech Talk on Friday, September 8th.
Presentation from PwC Cybersecurity team & networking with professionals. Stop by to learn more about opportunities within our Advisory Cybersecurity practice at PwC!
PwC Advisory helps clients with their most challenging imperatives from strategy through execution. The Advisory line of service combines the breadth of knowledge of over 48,000 global professionals with deep industry knowledge to deliver custom solutions to some of the world's largest and most complex companies. As a result, the firm has become one of the world's top consulting organizations giving PwC professionals tremendous development and advancement opportunities.
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STEPS to Register:
Log-in to ConnectSC -> Navigate to Events tab on the left column -> Trojan Talks -> PwC
(make sure you register for the right one as PwC is hosting multiple events across multiple dates)
Like our FB Page:
https://www.facebook.com/cyborgatusc/
Join our LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10347148
Sign up for our mailing list:
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Join our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cyborgatusc/Location: Gwynn Wilson Student Union (STU) - B3
Audiences: Members have first priority, but anyone can RSVP
Contact: USC CybOrg
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Alpha Omega Epsilon Preference Party
Fri, Sep 08, 2017 @ 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
This is our last recruitment event! If you are interested in joining A.O.E., you must be at this event! It is RSVP only, so please contact our Vice President, Hannah Adams, at hannahad@usc.edu for more information.
Location: Off-Campus
Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Alpha Omega Epsilon USC
