Semantics and Reasoning for NLP, AI and ACT
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The document summarizes Valeria de Paiva's career working in applied AI and natural language processing. It outlines her positions at various companies including PARC, Nuance Communications, Rearden Commerce, and Cuil, where she worked on projects involving conversational assistants, ontologies, search, and more. It also describes her collaboration with Katerina Kalouli on open-sourcing natural language inference work and projects involving Portuguese language data.
Semantics and Reasoning for NLP, AI and ACT
- 1. 1/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Semantics and Reasoning: for NLP, AI and ACT Valeria de Paiva Ada Lovelace Day 2021 October 2021 1 / 16
- 2. 2/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Topos Institute Presumably you know about NLP and AI. We should talk ACT = Applied Category Theory some other time 2 / 16
- 3. 3/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Personal stories I’m a mathematician, an AI scientist, and a computational semanticist. I work in Silicon Valley, have done so for the last 22 years, applying pure mathematics to computing, in surprising ways. 3 / 16
- 4. 4/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Personal stories 4 / 16
- 5. 5/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Samsung Research America (2019-2020) Dialogue and Knowledge Representation Lab, SRA, CA make Bixby (S’s voice personal assistant) communicate with home appliances by SmartThings Samsung acquired Viv (2nd assistant by Siri people) in Oct 2016, had acquired SmartThings in 2014, need to integrate stacks, grow Bixby SmartThings: leading open platform for the smart home and the consumer Internet of Things. projects: ontology of smart devices, based on WikiData, costumer-facing functionality. manufacturers cannot win alone, consumers need manufacturers to talk to each other 5 / 16
- 6. 6/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Nuance Communications (2012-2018) AI and NLP Lab in Sunnyvale Nuance: best voice recognition software system in 2012, add AI to make sounds into knowledge. big effort in several labs: Montreal, Boston, Sunnyvale. application areas: health systems, automotive, law, CRM, banks, insurance, etc our lab projects: personal assistant for Living Room (TV 2nd screen), PA for automotive companies Building small smartness into conventional search, e.g. ‘find allergy medication near me’ projects: voice interfaces for non-profits, student enquiries, .. 6 / 16
- 7. 7/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Rearden Commerce (2011-2012) AI/KR Lab in Foster City, CA a white-labelling shop for travel and expenses/procurement systems. application areas: air travel tickets, hotels, shows & sports, restaurants, ground transportation, parking, etc our lab project: a Groupon-like app as RC acquired HomeRun Using ontologies to discover what hotel reviewers really valued projects: extend WikiData for Brazilian cultural data, for DHBB, for ‘skills sets’, for music, literature, etc 7 / 16
- 8. 8/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Cuil (2008-2010) Start-up search company in Menlo Park a Google-competitor created by ex-googlers all sorts of tasks, from baby-sitting servers to dealing with users Learning to rank algorithms PARC Forum talk: Adventures in Searchland (in youtube) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/ story.php?storyId=92983118&ft=1&f=1001 projects: timelines in Portuguese, fake news detection 8 / 16
- 9. 9/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications PARC, XLE and Bridge 9 / 16
- 10. 10/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications How to think about Conversational Assistants? 10 / 16
- 11. 11/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications How to think about Conversational Assistants? 11 / 16
- 12. 12/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Several Conversational Assistants: applications (AI Summit 2018, Luxembourg) 12 / 16
- 13. 13/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Several Conversational Assistants 13 / 16
- 14. 14/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Natural Language Inference (NLI) Shock: work of almost nine years at PARC was out of reach when I left in 2008 I gave a talk at SRI proposing to redo it all, open source (Bridges, ENTCS2011) Pleased to report that almost all of it is now available open-source, redone from scratch, using new techniques Katerina Kalouli, Assistant Professor at LMU Munich, GKR/Hy-NLI Demo: https://cis.lmu.de/~kalouli/resources.html 14 / 16
- 15. 15/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications A lot of work together: Kalouli, Buis, Real, Palmer, de Paiva Explaining Simple Natural Language Inference. LAW 2019 Kalouli, Crouch, de Paiva, Real. Graph Knowledge Representations for SICK. NLCS, 2018. Kalouli, Real, de Paiva. WordNet for Easy Textual Inferences. Globalex Workshop, LREC 2018 Kalouli, Real, de Paiva. Correcting Contradictions. 2017. Kalouli, Real, de Paiva. Textual Inference: getting logic from humans. 2017. (‘Annotation Difficulties in Natural Language Inference’ to appear STIL 2021.) 15 / 16
- 16. 15/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Wait! What about Portuguese? OWN-PT browser: http://openwordnet-pt.org sources in GitHub https://github.com/own-pt 15 / 16
- 17. 16/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications Wait! What about Portuguese? 15 joint papers about nominalizations, OWN-PT, UD, temporal phenomena, etc. Papers: 0. SICK-BR. PROPOR 2018 1. Making Virtue Of Necessity: a Verb Lexicon. In PROPOR2016 2. Semantic Links For Portuguese. LREC 2016. 3. Plurality in Wordnets. 2016 4. Universal POS Tagging for Portuguese: Issues and Opportunities. 2016 5. Gentle With Gentilics. LREC 2016 6. An Overview of Portuguese WordNets. In Global Wordnet Conference 2016. 7. Seeing Is Correcting: Curating Lexical Resources Using Social Interfaces. LDL 2015. 8. As Wordnets Do Português. Oslo Studies In Language 7 (1) 9. Extending NomLex-PT Using AnCora-Nom. 2014 10. Improving The Verb Lexicon of OpenWordnet-PT. 2014 11. Extending a Lexicon Of Portuguese Nominalizations with Data from Corpora. 12. NomLex-PT: A Lexicon Of Portuguese Nominalizations. 13. Embedding NomLex-BR Nominalizations into OpenWordnet-PT. 14. OpenWordNet-PT: A Project Report. 16 / 16
- 18. 16/16 Introduction Industry PARC, XLE, Bridge Applications My website: http://vcvpaiva.github.io/index.html Semantics Demos: https://cis.lmu.de/~kalouli/resources.html Thanks! 16 / 16