TechFest 2019

Preferred.AI held a TechFest on Friday 23 August 2019, 3.30pm – 6.30pm to share the recent projects that we’re actively pursuing.

• Captivating talks based on recent top AI publications

• Useful libraries to build AI/ML-based models/apps

• Cool demos & apps with novel use cases

• Information on future opportunities with us

Session I – Talks (3.30PM to 5.00PM)

SMU School of Information Systems, Seminar Room B1-1

• Preferred.AI: Preferences and Recommendations from Data & AI – an overview of our activities and how you can get involved

• PCRL: Jointly Modeling User Preferences and Learning Deep Item Features from Auxiliary Data – a publication at UAI-18

• MRG: Multimodal Review Generation for Recommender Systems – a publication at WWW-19

• CompareLDA: A Topic Model for Document Comparison – a publication at AAAI-19

• MP-SimRank: Multiperspective Graph-theoretic Similarity Measure – a publication at CIKM-18

Click each title above for the respective slides. Video recordings of the talks are available here.

Session II – Posters and Demos (5.00PM to 6.30PM)

SMU School of Information Systems, Concourse opposite OCBC

• Cerebro: Closed-loop recommendation retrieval engine

• Cornac: Multimodal recommender system library

• JioApp: Recommendations for group meetups

• Propedia: Web-mined product encyclopedia

• SentiVec: Sentiment-infused word embeddings

• ThriftCity: Web-sourced price comparisons

• Venom: Focused crawler for the deep Web

• Butler: Conversational recommender system with natural language explanations

• FaceInMotion: Face-based intelligent emotion detection

• MindReader: News recommendation app based on reading history

• Neural Network Lab: Machine learning in your browser

Montage of the Event

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