A collaborative research project received a grant from Microsoft Azure
17 November 2016, by Reinhard Zierke
Recently, a collaborative project between the Language Technology group and Ural Federal University entitled "Accelerating Projection Learning for Word Subsumptions" received a one-year grant from Microsoft Azure of value 20,000 USD through the “Microsoft Azure for Research” program (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/microsoft-azure-for-research/). This grant proposal will provide access to researchers of both institutions with access to Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, namely powerful servers with modern GPU instances, such as NVIDIA Tesla. The grant, acquired under the lead of Dmitry Ustalov (https://ustalov.name/en) of Ural Federal University will enable researchers of both institutions to perform large-scale experiments on hypernym extraction. The goal of our project is development of a new method for extraction of hypernyms using the projection learning method based on word embeddings.