北京大学计算语言学教育部重点实验室

PaperRobot: Automatic Knowledge Prediction and Paper Writing

Speaker: Heng Ji

RPI→UIUC in Fall 2019

Abstract: Many scientific ideas are created in an incremental fashion, e.g., more than half of the terms in 2017 NLP papers overlapped with those in 2016 papers. We present a PaperRobot to perform as a research assistant who can perform a self- learning cycle: (1) perform deep and comprehensive understanding of a large collection of papers' content and construct a comprehensive background knowledge base; (2) automatically generate new knowledge by link prediction in the background knowledge base; (3) automatically write some content of a new paper (title, abstract and future work) and predict new title from self-created future work.

Bio: Heng Ji is the Edward P. Hamilton Chair Professor in Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University. Her research interests focus on Natural Language Processing, especially on Information Extraction and Knowledge Base Population. She was selected as "Young Scientist" and a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of Computing by the World Economic Forum in 2016, 2017 and 2018. She received "AI's 10 to Watch" Award by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, NSF CAREER award in 2009, Google Research Awards in 2009 and 2014, IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012 and 2014, and Bosch Research Awards in 2015, 2016 and 2017. She coordinated the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010, and served as the Program Committee Co-Chair of several conferences including NAACL-HLT2018.

时间: 2018-10-22 上午 10:00
地点: 理科1号楼1453N室(计算语言所会议室)