PhD Dissertation Defense Announcement by Shane Peelar:"Scalable, Efficient and Precise Natural Language Processing in the Semantic Web "

 

Date: Thursday December 17, 2020 

Time:  1:00pm – 4:00pm 

Zoom URL: https://zoom.us/j/98625953738? 

Passcode: : If interested in attending this event, contact the Graduat Secretary at csgradinfo@uwindsor.ca for the passcode.

Reminder: All attending this event must record their attendance in the excel spreadsheet link provided in the Zoom Chat. Record your full name and status (ie. Jane Doe, MSc)

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging phenomenon in the public space. Users with accessibility needs could especially benefit from these “smart” devices if they were able to interact with them through speech. This thesis presents a Compositional Semantics and framework for developing extensible and expressive Natural Language Query Interfaces to the Semantic Web, addressing privacy and auditability needs in the process. This could be particularly useful in healthcare or legal applicationss, where confidentiality of information is a key concern. 

 

Keywords: Natural Language Semantics, Semantic Web, Computational Linguistics 

Internal Reader: Dr. Jianguo Lu 

Internal Reader: Dr. Pooya Moradian Zadeh 

External Reader: Dr. Richard Caron, Department of Mathematics and Statistics   

External Examiner: Dr. Diana Zaiu Inkpen, University of Ottawa      

Advisor:  Dr. Richard Frost                       

Chair:  Dr. TJ Hammond, Department of Physics