Natural Language Processing

The strong and weak suits of state-of-the-art NLP

This is a joint event between Women in Science at Informatics – WiS@Informatics and CUSP London. This event is being organised as part of the celebration of the Women in Science Week at King's College London.

Making Machines Better Learners

Helen Yannakoudakis from KCL Informatics is working on the next generation of machine learning models for natural language processing that can learn more effectively and with less training data. Along the way, she is also making existing approaches better from detecting hateful memes to supporting health diagnostics, the impact of her work is considerable.

King's success in hateful memes challenge

King’s Lecturer in Computer Science, Dr Helen Yannakoudakis, was part of a team that enjoyed success in Facebook AI’s ‘Hateful Memes Challenge’ competition.