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Monthly Archives: May 2014

Seminar (14th May, 2014)

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In the next Machine Learning Group seminar, we have a talk by Suresh Veluru who is a Research Fellow at City.

Date & Time: Wednesday 14th May, 13:00-14:30

Location: Room AG06 (College Building)

Title: Correlated Community Estimation Models over a Set of Names

Abstract: Generally surnames (family name) or forenames are evolved over generations which can be used to understand population origins, migration, identity, social norms and cultural customs. These forenames or surnames may have hidden structure associated with them called communities. Each community might have strong correlation among several forenames and surnames. In addition, the correlation might be across communities of forenames or surnames. Popular statistical generative model such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has been developed to find topics in a corpus of documents. However, the LDA model can be proposed to identify hidden communities in names data set. This paper proposes several variants of latent Dirichlet allocation models to capture correlation between surnames and forenames within the communities and across the communities over a set of names collected at different locations. Initially, we propose surname correlated LDA model and forename correlated LDA model. These models identify communities in surnames or forenames and extract corresponding correlated forenames or surnames in each community respectively. Later, we propose surname community correlated LDA model and forename community correlated LDA model. These models estimate correlation among each surname community to the communities of forenames and vice versa respectively. We experiment for India and United Kingdom names data sets and conclusions are drawn.

New TSB Grants Awarded

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The Machine Learning Group is pleased to announce the recent success of two grant applications to the Technology Strategy Board:

Advancing Consumer Protection through Machine Learning: Reducing Harm in Gambling (PI: Artur Garcez), with £130k awarded to City University London.

FareViz: on the design of big data exploration tools for the analysis of train fares in real time (PI: Artur Garcez), with £149k awarded to City University London.

For more information on the projects please visit the Projects webpage.

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