When AI, IR and NLP get together: Research at UFMG, Brazil in the interconnections among these areas
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Date: 2023-09-07

When AI, IR and NLP get together: Research at UFMG, Brazil in the interconnections among these areas
Marcos André Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.

Talk at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

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When AI, IR and NLP get together: Research at UFMG, Brazil in the interconnections among these areas

Abstract: 
In this talk we will summarize several undergoing research efforts at Universidade Federal of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil in works that exploit interconnections among Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning), Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing in applications as diverse as: Instance Selection, Risk-Sensitive Information Retrieval, Extreme Text Classification, Text Representations for Text Classification, Learning with Temporal Drifts, among others. We will also provide examples of applications of these techniques in projects related to Law, Health and Scientometrics.

Bio: 
Marcos André Gonçalves is a full professor of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech, USA, and is a former junior member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. Marcos has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of AI, IR and NLP. He is a senior PC member or a PC member of the most important conferences in the area including ACM SIGIR, CIKM, ECIR, AAAI, ACL, EMNLP, WSDM, WWW, RecSys, among others.