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Speaker

林德康Dekang Lin

Biography

Dekang Lin is a co-founder of Singulariti, a Beijing-based startup for mobile search and assistant. He was a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google from 2004 to 2016, where he led a team of researchers and engineers to build a question-answerer in Google search.

Before joining Google, Dekang Lin was a full professor of Computer Science at University of Alberta.  He authored 90 papers with over 12000 citations. He was elected as Fellow of Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2012 and served as the program co-chair and general chair for ACL-2002 and ACL-2011 respectively. 

Abstract

Question-answering aims to provide the direct answers to users’ questions, instead of a list of documents that may contain the answers. In recent years, search engines have been transforming themselves into answer engines, by responding to increasingly larger proportions of users' queries (e.g., "when is the next world cup" and "fastest bird") with direct answers ("2018 and "peregrine falcon", respectively).  In this talk, I will give an overview of the approaches to question answering, and discuss the natural language processing and machine learning challenges in answer engines. 

About Company

Singulariti is a technical startup companythat focuses on improving mobile user experience in various aspects.

Our promising product, DeepShare, leveragesdeferred deep linking technology across mobile apps to simplify page-jumpingprocesses, providing app developers with powerful tools to convert morepotential customers and breaking through the walled garden among current Apps.We are also working on natural language understanding (NLU) technology,providing convenient interfaces to devices for end users and offering powerfulsuggestions for developers to take actions.

The company are founded by ex-googlers,Dekang Lin and Xiaoyun Wu, and team member consists of mostly top graduatesfrom elite universities PKU/Tsinghua, as well as seasoned engineers from toptechnology firm such as Google, Microsoft, the etc. We are basically a bunch ofcaring hackers trying to change the world.