Seminar

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Unconscious Bias: How to Recognize and Interrupt It

Please join Women in Computer Science for this free, virtual event with Kathleen Nalty, an expert in strategies to create cultures of inclusion to retain and advance diverse talent.

image by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash depicting diversity
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Data Systems — Estimating Property Values for Long Tail Entities

Mina Farid, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

One challenge that faces most extraction tools is the long tail of information. Entities that lie in the long tail do not have enough mentions in the text, limiting their relevant context. The absence of enough repetition restricts the extraction of property values with high confidence.