Quick presentation for LAC: Laboratory for Advanced Collaboration, Prof Endler, Dept Informatics, PUC- Rio de Janeiro, Aug 2020

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Semantics and Reasoning:
for NLP, AI and ACT
Valeria de Paiva
Lab for Advanced Communication, DI-PUC
August 2020
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Thanks, Markus!
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Personal stories
I’m an AI scientist, a mathematician, a computational semanticist
and a category theorist.
I work in industry in Silicon Valley, have done so for the last 20
years, applying pure mathematics to computing, in surprising ways.
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Personal stories
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Samsung Research America (2019-2020)
Dialogue and Knowledge Representation Lab, SRA, Mountain
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project: systems to make Bixby (voice personal assistant)
communicate well with home appliances at SmartHome
Samsung acquired Viv in Oct 2016, had acquired SmartThings
in 2014, need to integrate stacks, grow Bixby
SmartThings: leading open platform for the smart home and
the consumer Internet of Things.
LAC possible project: develop ontology of smart devices, based on
WikiData and costumer-facing functionality. manufacturers cannot
win alone, consumers need several manufacturers
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Nuance Communications (2012-2018)
AI and NLP Lab in Sunnyvale
Nuance had the best voice recognition software system in
2012. needed to add AI to make sounds into knowledge. big
effort in several labs: Montreal, Boston, Sunnyvale.
application areas: health systems, automotive, law, CRM,
banks, insurance, etc
our lab projects: personal assistant for Living Room (TV 2nd
screen), PA for automotive companies
Building small smartness into conventional search, e.g. ‘find
allergy medication near me’
PUC possible project: voice interfaces to endowment, student
enquiries or others
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Rearden Commerce (2011-2012)
AI/KR Lab in Foster City
a white-labelling shop for travel and expenses/procurement
systems. application areas: air travel tickets, hotels, shows&
sports, restaurants, ground transportation, parking, etc
our lab project: a Groupon-like app as RC acquired HomeRun
Using ontologies to discover what hotel reviewers really valued
PUC/LAC possible projects: a projection of WikiData adapted to
Brazil for the DHBB, for ‘skills sets’, for culture, etc
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Cuil (2008-2010)
Start-up search company in Menlo Park
a Google-competitor created by ex-googlers
all sorts of tasks, from baby-sitting servers to dealing with
costumers
Learning to rank algorithms
PARC Forum talk: Adventures in Searchland
PUC possible project: timelines in Portuguese
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
PARC, XLE and Bridge
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
How to think about Conversational Assistants?
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
How to think about Conversational Assistants?
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Several Conversational Assistants: applications
(AI Summit 2018, Luxembourg)
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Several Conversational Assistants
(AI Summit 2018, Luxembourg)
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Natural Language Inference (NLI)
Shock: work of almost nine years at PARC was out of reach
when I left in 2008
I gave a talk at SRI proposing to redo it all, open source
(Bridges, ENTCS2011)
Pleased to report that almost all of it is now available
open-source, redone from scratch, using new techniques
Katerina Kalouli, PhD student at Konstanz, GKR Demo:
http://lap0973.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de:
8080/sem.mapper/
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI

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Introduction
Industry
PARC, XLE, Bridge
NLI for Applications
Wait! What about Portuguese?
OWN-PT browser:
http://openwordnet-pt.org
sources in GitHub
My website:
http://vcvpaiva.github.io/index.html
GKR Demo:
http://lap0973.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de:
8080/sem.mapper/
Play with it and tells us all the other things we haven’t done, yet!
Thanks!
Valeria de Paiva LAC@DI