A reseacher of LINIS attended at the conference on Artificial Intelligence in Mexico

Senior Researcher of the Laboratory for Internet Studies Sergey Nikolenko attended the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) in Mexico in November 2013.

Senior Researcher of the Laboratory for Internet Studies Sergey Nikolenko attended the 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) in Mexico in November 2013.

Sergey Nikolenko made ​​a presentation Interval Semi-Supervised LDA: Classifying Needles in a Haystack, where he talked about the research method of mathematical modeling, which he arrange with a group of leading researchers of LINIS. In particular, the lab has developed a new extension model of LDA for qualitative research (using a discourse analysis). The text of the full article can be found here.

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"At the conference I met researchers from Mexico, Poland, Italy and talked a lot to Alexander Gelbukh, Head of the Natural Language Laboratory at the Center for Computing Research (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico. Alexander organizes MICAI last years and recently became the organizer of a new series of conferences on natural language processing called CICLing; by the way, CICLing 2014 will be held in Nepal and deadline for abstracts in December 31, so hurry!"- says Nicolenco.

Note that Alexander Gelbukh is the main organizer of the conference itself MICAI.

Report from the trip can be found in Sergey Nikolenko’s Live Journal blog.