Dr. Peter Norvig

13th February | 09:00-11:00 Hrs | EEE Audi

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Dr. Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google Inc, a position he has held since 2001. In between this period he was also the Director of Search Quality, which means he was the manager of record responsible for answering more queries than anyone else in the history of the world. Having spent much of hislife thinking about how computers think and making them do it more efficiently, he is intimately involved in the attempt to manage the world's information. An expert on artificial intelligence, he has taught at universities, held research jobs in the corporate world and at NASA, and co-written the influential textbook AI: A Modern Approach.

He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He was also the Chief Scientist at Junglee, where he helped develop one of the first Internet comparison shopping service. He has over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norvig

Language Models and Data

In decades past, models of human language were wrought from the sweat and pencils of linguists. In the modern day, it is more common to think of language modeling as an exercise in probabilistic induction from data. This talk gives examples of the language data available in large repositories, and shows some tasks that can be accomplished with the resulting models.