Reminder: Ilaria Tiddi on Jan. 17 in DKG/SWSA talk series (and further upcoming talks)

Dear all,

This is just a gentle reminder that there will be Ilaria Tiddi's talk
today, "Explainability with Knowledge Graphs: what have we learnt?"

Best,
Olaf


On Tue, 2024-01-09 at 21:45 +0100, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am happy to announce the next talk in the online talk series [1] of
> the COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) [2], in
> collaboration with the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) [3].
> 
> On January 17 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST, Ilaria Tiddi (Vrije
> Universiteit Amsterdam) will talk about:
> 
>   Explainability with Knowledge Graphs: what have we learnt?
> 
> Abstract:
> We hear about explanations for AI all the time these days, since the
> the latest (deep) machine learning solutions revealed to provide
> highly
> accurate, but hardly scrutable and interpretable decisions. In 2013,
> we
> were looking into using Knowledge Graphs to create explanations from
> ML
> outputs, well before we even heard of the term eXplainable AI (XAI,
> coined by DARPA in 2017). In this teasing talk, we will look into
> this
> work from today’s perspective, including what has been done in this
> context, whether it is still useful and relevant, and whether the
> same
> methods still apply. We will conclude with a discussion on the future
> of these ideas, hoping to foster new research in this direction.
> 
> Speaker:
> Ilaria Tiddi is an Assistant Professor in Hybrid Intelligence at the
> Knowledge in AI (KAI) group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL).
> Her research focuses on creating systems that generate complex
> narratives through a combination of semantic technologies, open data
> and machine learning, applied mostly in scientific and robotics
> scenarios. She is Editor-in-Chief of the CEUR-WS publication, part of
> the Steering Committee for the Hybrid Human-AI Conference, and
> Coordinator of the international Staff Exchange for the Dutch Hybrid
> Intelligence consortium. Since 2014, she is regularly active in the
> OCs/PCs of the major venues in the KR field (ISWC/ESWC, HHAI, WWW,
> CIKM, IJCAI/ECAI).
> 
> 
> The talk will be live streamed at our YouTube channel:
> https://www.youtube.com/@costdkg4356/streams

> 
> 
> In addition to Ilaria's talk, mark your calendars already for the
> following upcoming talks in the talk series.
> 
> * Mayank Kejriwal (University of Southern California)
> "Neurosymbolic Approaches for Robust Domain-Specific Semantic Search:
> Current Progress and Future Opportunities"
> January 31 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST
> 
> * Mark A. Musen (Stanford University)
> "Semantic Technology in Science: Enhancing Data Stewardship in
> Support
> of New Discovery"
> March 4 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST
> 
> * Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> "Does the Knowledge Graphs Community care about semantics?"
> April 17 at 18:00 CET / 12:00 EST 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Olaf
> 
> [1] https://cost-dkg.eu/talks

> [2] https://cost-dkg.eu/

> [3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

>

Received on Wednesday, 17 January 2024 11:57:00 UTC