February meetup at Signal AI - collaboration with academia

Despite Brexit, we will kick-off our 2020 meetups, with a special one that features a visit from an academic European network for training early career researchers.

The focus is on how academia and industry can better collaborate. We will have talks from both sides (academia and industry) and as usual the chance to network and have informal discussions over a drink or two and of course pizza!

18:00 – 19:00 Registration and Networking Reception

19:00 - 19:45 "Applied Research in Signal AI: Sentiment Analysis for PR monitoring" Raymond Ng/Signal AI

In Signal, we use A.I. to monitor and analyse news and media. We focus on reputation management and market intelligence analysis. Quantity, speed, customisation and user interaction are fundamental requirements. In this talk, we will explain how A.I. techniques can be applied on vast amount of text data. We will look into particular examples of sentiment analysis, and introduce state-of-the-art technology in research. Particularly we will highlight how the appropriate use of data can help achieving robust performance in commercial standard, and discuss some core challenges in applying A.I. on vast scale in an industrial setting.

19:45 - 20:30: " Quantum Mechanics meets Information Search and Retrieval", Intro by Ingo Frommholz and lightning talks

20:30 – 21:00 Networking Reception