HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Department of Computer Science Colloquium
2017 Series

An Overview of NLP and Deep Learning for Healthcare Applications

Prof. Massimo Piccardi
Professor
School of Electrical and Data Engineering
FEIT
University of Technology Sydney
Australia

Date: October 23, 2017 (Monday)
Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: SCT909, Cha Chi Ming Science Tower, Ho Sin Hang Campus

Abstract
In this talk, I first provide a very gentle introduction to natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. I then present some of our recent work in this area, i.e., the named-entity recognition of clinical concepts and drug names with the bidirectional LSTM-CRF. I conclude by discussing a number of other deep architectures for various NLP tasks such as sentence similarity and question answering.

Biography
Massimo Piccardi (M.Eng., 1991, Ph.D. Bologna, 1995) is a professor at University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where he serves as a program leader for the Global Big Data Technology Centre, a University-supported task force in communications and big data analytics. His main research areas are video surveillance, multimedia, machine learning, and, more recently, natural language processing. Massimo has published over a hundred and fifty papers to date and is an Associate Editor of journals "Computer Vision and Image Understanding" and "Machine Vision and Applications".

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