It is time for our yearly NLP Christmas together! We would love to welcome you at the 22nd NLP Zurich event 6 December 2019 at Swiss Re Next! We invited three amazing NLP experts to share their research and industrial experience with the community. Each presentation is 20 minutes followed by a short discussion time. Please RSVP on the meetup site.
Agenda:
17:30 Registration (closes 17:55)
18:00 Welcome
18:10 Jochen L. Leidner (Director of Research, R&D, Refinitiv Labs): Automating the Risk Register – Computer-Assisted Identification of Company Risk
18:35 Pankaj Gupta (Research Scientist, Siemens AG Munich): Neural Representation Learning Beyond Sentence Boundaries for Information Extraction and Document Topic Modeling
19:00 Piero Pierucci (Director Speech Tech, Telepathy Labs): Multimodal Emotion Detection – Foundations and State of the Art
19:40 Networking
Jochen L. Leidner: Automating the Risk Register – Computer-Assisted Identification of Company Risk
In this presentation, Risk Mining is presented, a project that led to the first automatic capability for extracting a risk register from journalistic news. I cover how risks can be extracted from unstructured data sources using a combination of natural language processing and weakly supervised as well as supervised machine learning processes. The approach demonstrates the induction of a weakly-supervised risk taxonomy in combination with dependency tree analysis, in order to perform large-scale company-risk relationship classification.
Dr. Jochen L. Leidner is Director of Research, R&D at Refinitiv Labs London and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Data Analytics at the University of Sheffield. For a number of years, he has also guest lectured on the topic of big data at the University of Zurich. He holds a Master's degree in engineering with a focus on machine learning from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in information extraction from the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
