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    Teaching Language to Computers

    How do you teach language to computers? Dr. Xiaodan Zhu discusses how his research, at the frontier of artificial intelligence, is helping computers better understand language, with wide ranging applications.

    Interviewee Name: 
    Dr. Xiaodan Zhu
    Topic: 
    Teaching Language to Computers
    Podcast: 
    Blind Date with Knowledge, Season 3, Episode 12
    Interviewed by: 
    Barry Kaplan
    Air date on CFRC: 
    December 11, 2019
    Episode length: 
    14:36
    Academic areas: 

    Dr. Xiaodan Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s, where he leads the Text Analytics and Machine Learning Lab (TAML). He is also a member of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥Â Ingenuity Labs Research Institute and is an affiliated expert with Queen’s Conflict Analytics Lab. He is associate editor of the journal Computational Intelligence and serves as the program co-chair of the 33rd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Queen’s in 2017, Dr. Zhu was a research officer at the National Research Council of Canada.

    In this episode, Dr. Zhu discusses how his research, at the frontier of artificial intelligence, is helping computers better understand language, with wide ranging applications. He also explains the intersections of law and AI with his work at the Queen’s Conflict Analytics Lab.

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    Teaching Language to Computers

    Season 3: Episode 12