Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Pasquale Minervini, University College London
• Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:00-12:00
• Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Edoardo Maria Ponti.

Abstract: Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are graph-structured Knowledge Bases where facts are encoded by links between entities, and their use is pervasive both in industry (e.g. see Google Knowledge Graph, Microsoft Satori) and academia (YAGO, DBpedia, NELL , OpenCyc). KGs are extremely useful, as they provide automated systems with machine-readable domain specific knowledge, allowing AI systems to perform deductive (and inductive) reasoning in a variety of domains. The talk will discuss about Representation Learning in KGs, its shortcomings, how we can introduce First-Order Logic constraints in the learned representations, and how we can extend such techniques to NLP models. Then the speaker will talk about his recent work in neuro-symbolic reasoning – namely on Neural Theorem Provers [1, 2] – and how we can perform explainable deductive reasoning jointly on Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language at scale.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.11040

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08204

Bio: Pasquale Minervini is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistical Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in the UCL Machine Reading group. He is funded by a Machine Reading grant from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2).

This talk is part of the Language Technology Lab Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road
• Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)
• Cambridge Forum of Science and Humanities
• Cambridge Language Sciences
• Cambridge talks
• Chris Davis' list
• Guy Emerson's list
• Interested Talks
• Language Sciences for Graduate Students
• Language Technology Lab Seminars
• Simon Baker's List
• Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
• bld31
• ndk22's list
• ob366-ai4er
• rp587

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.