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AI Seminar

Speaker: Xiang Ren, Computer Science PhD candidate at University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign

Talk Title: EFFORT-LIGHT STRUCTMINE: TURNING MASSIVE CORPORA INTO STRUCTURES

Series: Recruitng Seminar

Abstract: The realworld data, though massive, are hard for machines to resolve as they are largely unstructured and in the form of natural-language text. One of the grand challenges is to turn such massive corpora into machine-actionable structures. Yet, most existing systems have heavy reliance on human effort in the process of structuring various corpora, slowing down the development of downstream applications.

In this talk, I will introduce a data-driven framework, EffortLight StructMine, that extracts structured facts from massive corpora without explicit human labeling effort. In particular, I will discuss how to solve three structure mining tasks under Effort-Light StructMine framework: from identifying typed entities in text, to fine-grained entity typing, to extracting typed relationships between entities. Together, these three solutions form a clear roadmap for turning a massive corpus into a structured network to represent its factual knowledge. Finally, I will share some directions towards mining corpus-specific structured networks for knowledge discovery.


Biography: Xiang Ren is a Computer Science PhD candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with Jiawei Han and the Data and Information System DAIS Research Lab. The research Xiang develops data-driven methods for turning unstructured text data into machine-actionable structures. More broadly, his research interests span data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing, with a focus on making sense of massive text corpora. His research has been recognized with several prestigious awards including a Google PhD Fellowship, a Yahoo!-DAIS Research Excellence Award, and a C. W. Gear Outstanding Graduate Student Award from UIUC Computer Science. Technologies he developed has been transferred to US Army Research Lab, NIH, Microsoft, Yelp and TripAdvisor


Host: Craig Knoblock

Webcast: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/6b83d48fc61f4e398d8d8bbdff0004e01d

Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Floor Large CR #1135

WebCast Link: http://webcastermshd.isi.edu/Mediasite/Play/6b83d48fc61f4e398d8d8bbdff0004e01d

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Alma Nava / Information Sciences Institute