Telephone Pictionary and the Future of Computational Semantics

Rion Snow

http://ai.stanford.edu/~rion

The aim of this talk is to spread the joy of mixed media semantic translation (audience participation required!) and to discuss some insights into the nature of meaning as inspired by the parlor game "Telephone Pictionary" (Wikipedia entry, online server).

Rion Snow is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University, working with Professors Andrew Ng and Dan Jurafsky. Rion works in the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with a focus in computational semantics. He leads the Stanford Wordnet Project, which aims at learning large-scale semantic networks automatically from natural text. His work on automatically inferring semantic taxonomies received the Best Paper Award at the 2006 conference of the Association of Computational Linguistics.

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