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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