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5月23日上午，受中科院自动化所宗成庆研究员的邀请，滴滴出行自然语言处理首席科学家Kevin Knight教授受邀做客中科院自动化所，主讲模式识别学术大讲坛讲座系列之“Studying Recurrent Neural Networks for Natural Language Processing”。讲座由宗成庆研究员主持，来自自动化所60余名学生和教师等共同听取了此次讲座。
Kevin Knight教授围绕什么是序列深度神经网络，如何更好地理解序列神经网络；它是否有理论限制；以及其创新性这四个关键问题展开，内容涉及循环神经网络的数学基础、机器翻译、诗歌翻译等等。最后Kevin详细介绍了滴滴的人工智能现状，深入浅出的介绍了滴滴AI的布局，并欢迎学生加入滴滴。现场Kevin妙语连连，师生进行了热烈愉快的互动。
报告结束后，多位老师与同学在自然语言处理发展趋势、机器翻译模型、生成式模型的评价等问题上进行了深入交流。主要问题包括目前机器翻译中transformer模型与RNN模型的区别是什么，利用机器翻译系统来进行自动写诗的过程中是如何评价所生成诗歌的质量等。Kevin教授一一做出解答，为大家的研究工作提供了诸多宝贵经验和思想方法。
报告人简介
Kevin Knight is Chief Scientist for Natural Language Processing (NLP) at Didi Chuxing. He leads a DiDi lab in Los Angeles devoted to NLP research. He was previously Dean's Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and a Research Director and Fellow at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI). He received a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. Dr. Knight's research interests include human-machine communication, machine translation, language generation, automata theory, and decipherment. He has co-authored over 150 research papers on natural language processing, including one outstanding paper award at NAACL 2018 and one best demonstration award at ACL 2018. Dr. Knight also co-authored the widely-adopted textbook "Artificial Intelligence" (McGraw-Hill). In 2001, he co-founded Language Weaver, Inc., a machine translation company acquired by SDL plc in 2010. Dr. Knight was a key researcher in programs run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He served as President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2011, as General Chair for the Annual Conference of the ACL in 2005, and as General Chair for the North American ACL conference in 2016. He is a Fellow of the ACL, a Fellow of ISI, and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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