Open Tech Calendar

Welcome to the April PyData Edinburgh event!

We're delighted to be back at SolarWinds again (remember, to avoid ending up in the parking lot, don't use sat nav, follow the instructions on our address 😆).

We'll have our regular update on the PyData community, lightning talks and we're delighted to have Sabine Weber from the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at University of Edinburgh as our main speaker.

We look forward to seeing you there — doors open at 1815, make sure you've clicked attend to reserve your place!

TALK DETAILS
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Show not tell: Teaching machines entailment
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Presenter: Sabine Weber
Sabine Weber is a second year PhD student at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh. She works on semantics and specifically on detecting and aligning entailment in English and German. She has a background in both Linguistics and Computer Science.

Description:
Detecting entailment and reasoning with it is one of the tasks that humans solve with ease, but that computers struggle with. If we hear that our Aunt Mary arrived in London, we know that she is in London at this very moment. But how can we teach knowledge like this to a machine without writing down thousands of rules by hand? In this talk I will present a method to mine entailment relations between verbs from a large collection of news text in German and English and show some possible applications for the resulting multilingual entailment graphs.

LIGHTNING TALKS
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Share your stories! Share your successes & failures! Share your hints & tips! Whether you are a beginner or an expert, we want to hear from you.

If you want to give a lightning talk at this event, send us a message either here on Meetup, through Twitter @PyDataEdinburgh or any other way you know how to find us!

Just 5 minutes, still informal, no need for slides unless you want them — go on, give it a go!

LOGISTICS
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Please note all attendees MUST sign up to the Meetup to be admitted.

1815: Doors open, drinks & networking
1845: Talks start - welcome & community announcements followed by our main speaker, then lightning talks.
We'll end the evening with pizza and more refreshments, wrapping up by 2100.

SPONSORS & REFRESHMENTS
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As always, we couldn't do this without our sponsors help to provide a venue and drink & pizzas — Cathcart Associates (www.cathcartassociates.com), Solarwinds (www.solarwinds.com), Wood Mackenzie (www.woodmac.com), Lloyds Banking (www.lloydsbank.com) and Canon Medical (research.eu.medical.canon)

CODE OF CONDUCT
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The PyData Code of Conduct (pydata.org) governs this meetup. To discuss any issues or concerns relating to the code of conduct or the behavior of anyone at a PyData meetup, please contact the local group organizers (message us on the meetup page). Please also submit a report of any potential Code of Conduct violation directly to NumFOCUS using the link found at numfocus.org.

Thank you for helping us to maintain a welcoming and friendly PyData community!