nlp

Bridging the Gap between the Academia and Industry by Extending High-Quality Research to Practical Business Needs

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B9 L2 R2322 H1

This seminar focuses on providing the audience with the context and scope of our internship program. The program is for the young and talented graduate students with an active interest in solving real-world problems. Some of the projects that will be presented in the seminar are actively developed in Elm and include domains such as computer vision, robotics and automation, healthcare, IoT, video analytics, and NLP. The seminar will serve as a launch pad to allow students to discuss their future interests and aspirations with the speaker. It will also enable them to develop a better awareness of domains more relevant to their future research aspirations.

A Brief Overview of Arabic NLP

Prof. Sakhar B. Alkhereyf

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B5 L5 R5209

Arabic, being one of the six official languages of the United Nations and the sixth most commonly spoken language across the globe, holds a significant stance in the linguistic landscape. The diglossic nature of Arabic, where Classical Arabic (CA), Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and various dialects coexist, coupled with its complex morphological structure, presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

The Prospect of Generative Language Processing

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B9 L2 H2 H2

In the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, generative models are revolutionizing our interface with computational systems and reshaping societal paradigms. For example, foundation models have the potential to transform content creation across languages, offering discovery and productivity pathways for humans to engage with one another and their environment. This talk sketches the core methodologies propelling this groundbreaking progress, charting a grand vision for generative natural language processing.

Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Transformers

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B9 L2 H2 H2

Currently, attention mechanism becomes a standard fixture in most state-of-the-art NLP, Vision and GNN models, not only due to outstanding performance it could gain, but also due to plausible innate explanation for the behaviors of neural architectures it provides, which is notoriously difficult to analyze. However, recent studies show that attention is unstable against randomness and perturbations during training or testing, such as random seeds and slight perturbation of input or embedding vectors, which impedes it from becoming a faithful explanation tool. Thus, a natural question is whether we can find some substitute of the current attention which is more stable and could keep the most important characteristics on explanation and prediction of attention.

Ricardo Manuel Pinto de Lima

My mission is to develop computational models and methods based on mathematical optimization and data science for sustainable energy and chemical processes. I am deeply committed to decarbonization, climate change mitigation, and optimal operations management.