To re-engineer or not to re-engineer: a prescription for success

The Ultimate Hack: Re-inventing Intelligence to Re-engineer Earth

It is for me a huge honor to be invited to deliver the counterbalancing view within this distinguished gathering of counter-terrorism experts. 1 Let me begin by emphasizing what I consider to be the " three strikes " or in international terms, the " side-out " of government counter-terrorism thinking today. STRIKE ONE: Terrorism is a symptom, not a root cause or threat. Going after Al Qaeda has...

Re-engineer your supply chain to save lives

To Re(label), or Not To Re(label)

One of the most popular uses of crowdsourcing is to provide training data for supervised machine learning algorithms. Since human annotators often make errors, requesters commonly ask multiple workers to label each example. But is this strategy always the most cost effective use of crowdsourced workers? We argue “No” — often classifiers can achieve higher accuracies when trained with noisy “uni...

Combining Open-Source with Research to Re-engineer a Hands-on Introductory NLP Course

We describe our first attempts to re-engineer the curriculum of our introductory NLP course by using two important building blocks: (1) Access to an easy-to-learn programming language and framework to build hands-on programming assignments with real-world data and corpora and, (2) Incorporation of interesting ideas from recent NLP research publications into assignment and examination problems. ...

Merging neural networks and topological models to re-engineer construction drawings

In this paper an approach is presented to digitize a drawing, to build up geometric and topologic models, to recognise construction parts and to interpret dimension lines and inscriptions. All recognized parts are transformed into a three-dimensional geometric model which provides all necessary geometric information for a product model. The recognition process of construction parts is based on ...