University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: November 2020

Guest Lecture: Hybrid Scientific Relation Extraction for Scholarly Knowledge Organization

Speaker: Ming Jiang, PhD student at the Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Time: Thursday, Nov 19 at 3 p.m. CST Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98435362731?pwd=T0xVem1mT1RnbWZzWmNaQ0s5dU1iUT09 The rapid growth of scientific articles has made digital libraries (DL) a vital source for scholarly information access. A grand challenge in DL research today is to organize large volumes of …

New Faculty Profile: Dr. Chaoqun Ni

Dr. Chaoqun Ni brings her expertise in information technology and science policy to the iSchool. She’s excited to continue her research in scholarly competition and gender disparities within scientific fields at the iSchool, particularly under the new CDIS division at UW-Madison. Educational/professional background: I earned a PhD in Information Science, with a minor in Statistics …

Guest lecture: Language and Justice: Examining the Social Implications of Language Technologies

Language and Justice: Examining the Social Implications of Language Technologies Guest Speaker: Su Lin Blodgett, Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research Montréal Date/Time: Thursday, Nov 12 at 2 p.m., Central Time Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97748479865?pwd=amxrY1g0Y09wOUdHb29zUmZqb3ZoZz09 Natural language processing (NLP) systems are now ubiquitous. Yet the benefits of these language technologies do not accrue evenly to all users, and they …