At this week’s MCQLL meeting (Wednesday, October 14th, 1:30-2:30pm), we will hear from Alain Tapp, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at the Université de Montréal. Professor Tapp is a multidisciplinary researcher with contributions to quantum mechanics, computational complexity, cryptography, information theory, algorithms, ethics of algorithm, machine learning, and recently computational linguistics. He is a member of the Centre de Recherche Mathématique and an associate member of MILA. Abstract below.
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Talk: In this lecture I will present some recent breakthroughs in discrete word representation based on language models. I will show that using an appropriate cost function minimization in deep learning, one can learn word embedding with discrete features that have impressive semantic relevance.