Introduction to automatic natural language processing

This webinar is a brief introduction to automatic Natural Language Processing (NLP). To fully understand the different concepts presented, two components essential to textual generation will be addressed, namely word embedding and language models.

Date
  • 16 October 2020
Time

12h00 to 13h00

Location

Online

Cost

Free

Activity presented in French only

This webinar is a brief introduction to automatic Natural Language Processing or NLP.

The webinar will focus on the specific case of text generation, writing assistance and the connection with the era of Fake News. In addition, in order to fully understand the different concepts presented, two components essential to textual generation will be addressed, namely word embedding and language models.

No prior knowledge is required.

This webinar is presented by IID (Institute Intelligence and Data) of Université Laval

Conférencier

Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Université Laval

Nicolas Garneau is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Université Laval who has several years of experience in software development and data analysis. He specializes in the automatic natural language processing using deep neural network learning methods. He has had a foothold in industry throughout his academic career by applying his theoretical knowledge to real issues which businesses are facing.

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