Kolloquium Wi17-18
Speaker
Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the Edinburgh NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group
When: Monday, 06.11.2017
Where: Room D-125
Topic
Jointly Representing Images and Text: Dependency Graphs, Word Senses, and Multimodal Embeddings
Language: English
Abstract
Vita
Frank Keller is professor of computational cognitive science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His background includes an undergraduate degree from Stuttgart University, a PhD from Edinburgh, and postdoctoral and visiting positions at Saarland University and MIT. His research focuses on how people solve complex tasks such as understanding language or processing visual information. His work combines experimental techniques with computational modeling to investigate reading, sentence comprehension, and language generation, both in isolation and in a visual context. Prof. Keller serves on the management committee of the European Network on Vision and Language, is a member of governing board of the European Association for Computational Linguistics, and recently completed an ERC grant in the area of vision and language.
Contact
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Menzel