With a shared vision and a strong Idiap-EPFL strategic alliance, the two institutions are seeking to appoint a new director, ready to take over the foreseen growth challenges, in collaboration with academic and industrial partners, a worldwide-recognized permanent staff of senior researchers, and a strong administrative support staff.
Idiap and EPFL foster interdisciplinary research and are committed to lead technological advances and translating innovation into new solutions. The new Idiap director and EPFL faculty member will:
• lead and manage Idiap to maintain its scientific reputation and strengthen its impact worldwide, through a strong commitment to excellence in research, education, and technology transfer,
• identify and foster outstanding potential and visionary ideas, specify strategic guidelines and address issues in current scientific, technological, and societal domains,
• initiate an independent and creative research program,
• as a faculty member of the EPFL School of Engineering, participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching and mentoring.
The successful candidate will be offered an appointment in the EPFL Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering. She/he will be based at Idiap in Martigny and teach at EPFL main campus in Lausanne.
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Read more about this (only in French) by clicking on the following link: Prix du meilleur article à un professeur de l'Institut ICT
]]>The paper describes a new method of learning multilingual representations for text classification, which is able to transfer knowledge across languages and scale efficiently to a large number of languages. The evaluation which was performed on a news dataset of about 600,000 documents written in 8 languages, shows that the proposed multilingual models outperform monolingual ones on both low-resource and full-resource scenarios, while they remain more computationally efficient than them. The paper is accompanied by a toolkit and a dataset which will encourage research in multilingual representation learning.
For this conference, there were 179 oral or poster presentations selected from 580 submissions (success rate: 31%). The congress was accompanied by five satellite workshops and six tutorials. Two prizes were awarded: best paper and best student paper. The written versions of all accepted articles appeared in the proceedings of the conference, available in Open Access via the ACL Anthology.
Paper: http://aclweb.org/anthology/I17-1102.pdf
Citation: http://aclweb.org/anthology/I17-1102.bib
Code and data: https://github.com/idiap/mhan
Proceedings: http://aclweb.org/anthology/I17-1102
Website: http://ijcnlp2017.org/
The impact of culture in visual emotion perception has recently captured the attention of multimedia research. Focusing on the language dimension of culture, this paper proposes a clustering method for multilingual affective visual concepts based on distributed representations, which enables their analysis and comparison across languages. The discovered clusters which were evaluated in terms of semantic and sentiment consistency provide interesting cultural insights such as lexical, affective, and visual variation, as well as, uniqueness and expressivity.
The research was conducted in collaboration with Columbia University (DVMM lab), Yahoo! Research and JW Player.
The article is available at: Multilingual Visual Sentiment Concept Matching
Also: ICMR 2016 AWARDS WINNERS
]]>Using 1260 hours of broadcast TV material provided by BBC, the search sub-task required finding a segment based on a text query, while the hyperlinking sub-task required finding items from the collection that are related to “anchors” from known items. The NLP group proposed a unified approach to both sub-tasks, grounded in methods from content-based recommendation. The idea is to compute the most similar segments to a given text query or to another segment, based on words, then to re-rank them using visual concepts.
The NLP group was ranked first on the hyperlinking task for mean average precision, with values above 50%. This task is also the closest one to its research themes. Additional analyses and comparisons of scores are under way and will be presented in future publications, including a special session at ICMR 2014.
The team from Idiap’s Natural Language Processing group acknowledges the kind support of the SNSF/IM2 Aroles project as well as of the EU inEvent project.
More information is available at the following sites: MediaEval 2013.
Proceedings of MediaEval 2013 workshop, October 18-19, Barcelona.
Article by NLP group: Bhatt C., Pappas N., Habibi M., & Popescu-Belis A. “Idiap at MediaEval 2013: Search and Hyperlinking Task”. Proceedings of the MediaEval 2013 Workshop, Barcelona.
inEvent EU project
IM2 Aroles project
Contact: Andrei.Popescu-Belis [at] idiap.ch, Chidansh.Bhatt [at] idiap.ch