[Forum SIS] Statistics and Probability Seminars @University of Nottingham: Rachel Carrington

[Fabrizio Leisen]

Dear All,

the Statistics and Probability group at the University of Nottingham
organize a series of internal seminars which will be available to anyone
interested, even outside the University of Nottingham.

Our next speaker is Dr *Rachel Carrington*. Seminar date and time: *11th* * of
February at 2pm. *

Below you can find the Abstract and Title. Furthermore, you can find the
Teams link to join the seminar.

Best Wishes,
Fabrizio Leisen

You are cordially invited to the following seminar:


Rachel Carrington
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_Carrington2> (Internal
Seminar) ----> *11**th** of* *February at 2pm*



*Title:* Semi-supervised word embeddings



*Abstract:* Word embeddings are a popular way of modelling language, in
which words are represented as low-dimensional vectors. The aim is that
distances between vectors correspond to relationships between words: words
with similar meanings should be closer together in the embedding space.
Recently this has been a growing area of interest, with applications
including sentiment analysis, machine translation, and artificial
intelligence. However, a disadvantage is that large amounts of data are
generally needed to train word embedding models. In this talk I will first
give an overview of how word embeddings are generated, and then I will
outline a novel method of generating semi-supervised word embeddings, based
on multidimensional scaling, which has the potential to reduce the amount
of data needed to generate accurate word embeddings.

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Fabrizio Leisen
Professor of Statistics
University of Nottingham
School of Mathematical Sciences
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

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