报告题目: Towards Human-Computer Conversation Systems: Applications and Challenges
报告人： 严睿 北京大学 助理教授、研究员
主持人：姚俊杰
报告时间： 12月15日 周五下午 13:30—14:30
报告地点： 中北校区数学馆201

报告摘要：

Nowadays, automatic human-computer conversation systems have attracted great attention from both industry and academia. Intelligent products such as XiaoIce (by Microsoft) and Duer (by Baidu) have been released, while tons of Artificial Intelligence companies have been established, we see the technology behind the conversational systems is accumulating and now open to the public gradually. With the investigation of researchers, conversational systems are more than scientific fictions: they become real. I would review the development of human-computer conversation systems, especially the revolutionary changes brought by deep learning techniques. I would start from current applications and the bottlenecks of them. Then I would look forward to future challenges in the next generation systems. In the meanwhile, I would share the work by our group.

报告人简介: 

Dr. Rui Yan is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Peking University, and was a Senior Researcher at Baidu Inc. He has investigated several open-domain conversational systems and dialog systems in vertical domains. Till now he has published more than 50 highly competitive peer-reviewed papers. He serves as a (senior) program committee member of several first tier venues (such as KDD,IJCAI, SIGIR, ACL, WWW, AAAI, CIKM, EMNLP). http://www.ruiyan.me/