{"630576":{"#nid":"630576","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ML@GT Seminar: Niranjan Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Machine Learning Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;invites\u0026nbsp;you to a lecture by Niranjan Balasubramanian from\u0026nbsp;Stony Brook University.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe lecture will be held at 12:15\u0026nbsp;on Wednesday, January 15\u0026nbsp;in Marcus Nanotechnology Room 1117-1118.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfYx_UVTRLlvcS792KCYY6A6TOjbqazWLaIyl4-xJeDz7lusA\/viewform?usp=sf_link\u0022\u003ERSVP Here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EQuestion Answering, Event Knowledge, and other NLP Stuff: Forays into Reuse, Decomposition, and\u0026nbsp;Control in Neural NLP Models\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;In this three-part talk, I will present some of our recent efforts that aim to\u0026nbsp;control\u0026nbsp;and adapt neural models to work more effectively in target applications. The first part will focus on how to repurpose a pre-trained neural entailment model for multi-hop QA, and decomposing large QA models to run effectively on mobile devices. In the second part, I will present methods for learning structured latent spaces for better\u0026nbsp;control\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;modeling and generating event sequences. In the third part, I will talk briefly about modeling target-side syntax for machine translation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENiranjan is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at Stony Brook University, where he heads the Language Understanding and Reasoning lab (LUNR). Prior to joining Stony Brook, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, and was one of the early members of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Niranjan completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe likes food and wine just enough that he sometimes wants to mention it as part of his bio and is a categorically amateurish paint splatterer that he does not (yet) want to mention it as part of his bio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech invites you to a seminar by Niranjan Balasubramanian from Stony Brook University."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2020-01-06 17:31:03","changed_gmt":"2020-01-08 18:09:28","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-01-15T12:15:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2020-01-15T13:15:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-01-15T13:15:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-01-15 17:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-01-15 18:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-01-15 18:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKyla Hanson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ekhanson@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}