February: NLP at DARPA. NEW LOCATION

This February, we are trying out a new day (MONDAY) and a new location (The Big Hunt, right off Dupont Circle). We're hoping this works out as a long-term home for us. Join us as we check it out.

Our speaker this month is from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (better known as DARPA). Come get his perspective on how DARPA's using NLP today and the direction it will take in the future:

DARPA has been a major driver of NLP research in the US for several decades. In this talk, Boyan Onyshkevych, currently a Program Manager at DARPA, will discuss several current NLP-related DARPA programs, and will provide his perspective on future NLP research directions.

Dr. Boyan Onyshkevych is a Program Manager at DARPA's Information Innovation Office. His research interests include human language technologies and knowledge-based systems applied to the areas of information extraction, language understanding and semantic computing.

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We'll meet at 6:30pm at the Big Hunt, right of Dupont Circle. We'll be in the Jungle Room, the bar to the left. We'll do intros around 7:00 and move into the talk right around 7:30.

DC NLP meets in the second week of each month to network, socialize, and learn about the interesting work folks are doing in natural language processing, computational linguistics, text analytics, and more.

Do you have something you'd like to share with the group? Let us know! We're always looking for speakers to give talks at future meetups, and don't forget to follow @DCNLP (https://twitter.com/DCNLP/) on Twitter!