Huaiyu Zhu
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Research - Almaden

Huaiyu Zhu is a senior software engineer and a member of the Infrastructure for Intelligent Information Systems Group at IBM Research – Almaden. His research interests include natural language processing, machine learning and statistics, and scalable information systems. He’s worked on neural networks, information geometry, text analytics, information extraction, enterprise search, knowledge discovery, enterprise analytics platforms, and multilingual natural language processing. He holds a PhD in computational mathematics and statistics from the University of Liverpool.

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11:55am–12:35pm Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Location: 230 B

Toward universal semantic understanding of natural languages

Implementing AI, R&D and Innovation

Secondary topics: Health and Medicine, Machine Learning, Text, Language, and Speech

Huaiyu Zhu (IBM Research - Almaden), Dulce Ponceleon (IBM Research - Almaden), Yunyao Li (IBM Research - Almaden)

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Natural language understanding (NLU) underlies a wide range of applications and services. Rich resources available for English do not exist for most other languages, but the questions of how to expand these resources without duplicating effort and if it's possible to develop language-agnostic NLU-dependent applications remains. Huaiyu Zhu, Dulce Ponceleon, and Yunyao Li believe the answer is yes. Read more.