演講資訊

專題研討(105/12/23) -陳縕儂 助理教授(國立臺灣大學資訊工程學系)

題目:Language Empowering Intelligent Assistants

主講人:陳縕儂 助理教授(國立臺灣大學資訊工程學系)

時間:105年12月23日(星期五13:30 - 15:00)

地點:三峽校區社科院社1F04教室

Abstract
We have envisioned that one day computers will understand natural language and actively predict what and when we need help in order to proactively complete tasks on our behalf. When computers become more ubiquitous (e.g. wearable devices) and number of applications increases, there has been a tremendous investment of virtual personal assistants from the industry (Microsoft's Cortana, Google Home, Apple's Siri, Amazon's Echo, and Facebook's Bot). In this talk, we will give an overview of personal assistants, describe the system architecture and the key components. Then we will highlight challenges and recent trends driven by deep learning and big data, and discuss the systems' potential to fully redefine the human-computer interaction moving forward.

Short Bio
Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. Her research interests include language understanding, dialogue systems, natural language processing, deep learning, and multimodality. She received Best Student Paper Awards from IEEE ASRU 2013 and IEEE SLT 2010 and a Student Best Paper Nominee from INTERSPEECH 2012. Chen earned the Ph.D. degree from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 2015, and then joined Microsoft Research for a research position in the Deep Learning Technology Center in 2016. (http://vivianchen.idv.tw)