BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 RDATE:20160313T020000 RDATE:20170312T020000 RDATE:20180311T020000 RDATE:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T020000 RDATE:20141102T020000 RDATE:20151101T020000 RDATE:20161106T020000 RDATE:20171105T020000 RDATE:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140227T042438Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140320T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140320T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140227T042438Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140227T042438Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465749 DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled! \;\nPDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour is an informal gathering of individuals working in computational li nguistics\, speech\, and natural language processing in the Portland met ro area. No talks\, just socializing\, but shop talk encouraged. Some fo lks will be around 7-10\, so drop in as your schedule permits. At Orenco Taphouse. \;\n\n\nTags: natural language processing\, computational linguistics\, speech\, machine learning\, happy hour\, beer\, NLP\n\nImp orted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250465749 SUMMARY:PDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour LOCATION:Orenco Taphouse: 1198 NE Orenco Station Pkwy\, Hillsboro OR 9712 4 SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140529T012042Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140619T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140619T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140529T012042Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140529T012042Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466339 DESCRIPTION:PDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour is an informal gathering of individuals working in computational linguistics\, speech\, and natural language processing in the Portland metro area. No talks\, just socializing\, but shop talk encouraged. Some folks will be around 7 -10\, so drop in as your schedule permits. At the Lucky Labrador Beer Ha ll.\n\nTags: natural language processing\, computational linguistics\, s peech\, machine learning\, happy hour\, beer\, NLP\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250466339 SUMMARY:PDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour LOCATION:Lucky Labrador Beer Hall: 1945 NW Quimby\, Portland OR 97209 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140909T061641Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140918T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140918T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140909T061641Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140909T061641Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466958 DESCRIPTION:PDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour is an informal gathering of individuals working in computational linguistics\, speech\, and natural language processing in the Portland metro area. No talks\, just socializing\, but shop talk encouraged. Some folks will be around 7 -10\, so drop in as your schedule permits. See you at EastBurn!\n\nTags : natural language processing\, computational linguistics\, speech\, mac hine learning\, happy hour\, beer\, NLP\n\nImported from: http://calagat or.org/events/1250466958 URL:http://www.theeastburn.com/ SUMMARY:PDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour LOCATION:EastBurn: 1800 E. Burnside St.\, Portland Oregon 97214 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170915T184846Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171010T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171010T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170915T184846Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170915T184846Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250472508 DESCRIPTION:This group is meant as a round table for anyone interested in conversational/intelligent agents (chatbots) whether voice or text dri ven. Feel free to bring your questions no matter how basic\, technical\, academic or business or design related. \;\n \;\nWe'll get togeth er and talk about the group\, what we want from it and what we are worki ng on and interested in doing. \;\n \;\nI'll give an overview of b asic voice agent (Alex / Google home) development as I see and understan d it designed to get us sharing information. \;\n \;\nLet me know if you are interested in presenting something or leading a discussion.&# 13\;\n \;\nAfterwards some of us will go to a local bar/restaurant to continue the conversation. \n\nTags: chatbots\, intelligent agents\, Ar tificial Intelligence\, NLP\, voice first\n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250472508 URL:https://www.meetup.com/PDX-Intelligent-Assistants/events/243303131/ SUMMARY:PDX Intelligent Assistants: Group organization and basic skill bu ilding overview LOCATION:CENTRL East Side Location: 329 Northeast Couch Street\, Portland OR 97232 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T222602Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180613T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180613T173000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T222602Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T222602Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250473761 DESCRIPTION: \;\nJoin us June 13 for the first meetup in our new forma t\, featuring Zach Babb\, Principal Technologist from Daimler's moovel d ivison sharing a view into their Conversational Experiments. Following B abb will be a tour of Cognigy's Conversational UI platform. \;\n \ ;\nDoors will open at 5:30pm for beer by Baerlic Brewing\, soda\, pizza and conversation \;\n \;\n6:30pm – 7:00pm Zach Babb\, Principal Te chnologist at Daimler moovel will share a view into their lab efforts sp ecific to conversational interfaces such as Alexa and Facebook Messenger \, why they shelved them and why now might be the perfect time to pick t hem up again. Checkout the latest news about the Daimler/BMW mobility me rger which includes moovel\, Reach Now and many more https://www.nytimes .com/2018/03/28/business/daimler-bmw-car-sharing.html \;\n \;\n7:0 0pm – 7:30pm Demonstration of Cognigy’s Conversational AI platform http: //www.cognigy.com which allows for rapid development and deployment of e xperiences across Slack\, Alexa\, Facebook Messenger and more \;\n 3\;\n7:30pm – 8:00pm Discuss topics and interesting presenters for futur e meetings\n\nTags: chat bots\, conversational interfaces\, ui\, NLP\, N LU\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250473761 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Chatbots_Intelligent_Conversational_Interfaces /events/fhxdspyxjbrb/ SUMMARY:Chatbots & Intelligent Conversational Interfaces Launch LOCATION:Connective DX: 2030 NW Pettygrove St.\, Portland OR 97209 us SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180821T203719Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180905T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180905T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180821T203719Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180821T203719Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250474142 DESCRIPTION: \;\nWe'll get together to discuss questions you may have about deep learning. So don't be shy. Let us know what you are working o n\, what you've learned and what you'd like help with. \;\n \;\nI also propose we read and discuss "\;A Survey of the Usages of Deep L earning in Natural Language Processing"\; https://arxiv.org/abs/1807 .10854 Note: There is no single person presenting this paper we'll all r ead it and discuss what we learned and what we didn't understand.\n\nTag s: Deep Learning\, machine learning\, NLP\n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250474142 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Deep-Learning/events/pjlqgpyxmbhb/ SUMMARY:SEP Wednesday\, September 5\, 2018 Peer mentoring and paper discu ssion: A Survey of the Usages of DL in NLP LOCATION:Tura.io: 2828 Southwest Corbett Avenue\, Portland OR 97201 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181220T163918Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190102T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190102T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181220T163918Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181220T163918Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250474712 DESCRIPTION:Start your new year off right with other deep learning enthus iasts. Bring your questions and insights related to DL. \;\n \;\nW e'll also discuss PyText the new NLP framework from Facebook built on Py Torch. This will be a discussion topic not a formal presentation so revi ew the package if you can. \;\n \;\nhttps://github.com/facebookres earch/PyText\n\nTags: Deep Learning\, pytorch\, pytext\, NLP\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250474712 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Deep-Learning/events/tknmmqyzcbdb/ SUMMARY:Peer mentoring and deep learning discussions. Special Topic: PyTe xt LOCATION:The Tech Academy: 310 SW 4th Ave Suite 230\, Portland OR 97204 u s SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190212T192710Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190216T140000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190216T130000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190212T192710Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190212T192710Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250475036 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a demo of analyzing and plotting Twitter sentimen t using Python and Natural Language Processing. I'll demo how to use tec hniques such as tokenizing\, lemmatizing\, corpora\, wordnet\, and build ing a machine learning classifiers such as Logistic Regression\, SVC\, a nd SGDC. \;\n \;\nI wonder what the Twitter sentiment will be on o ur president on demo day? \;\n \;\nIf you would like to join the d iscussion check us out on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/7891236789. \;\n \;\nDo you want to learn and share your passion in a supportive communit y? Knowledge Mavens is an ethos of sharing\, creativity\, and inspiratio n. \;\n \;\nOur Meetup provides an opportunity to "\;Show and Tell"\; followed by feedback and Q&\;A. You'll have the opportuni ty to share with our channels such as Meetup\, GitHub\, YouTube\, and Fa cebook to connect with more passionate people. \;\n \;\nThe second half of our session we'll collaborate on new topics. The winner wins an award for the most interesting topic and the opportunity to share in an upcoming session.\n\nTags: machine learning\, natural language processi ng\, NLP\, nltk\, twitter sentiment\, twitter\, sentiment\, data analysi s\, data science\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125047503 6 URL:http://KnowledgeMavens.org SUMMARY:Twitter Sentiment with Machine Learning and Natural Language Proc essing LOCATION:Portland Community Church: 7100 Southwest Scholls Ferry Road\, B eaverton OR 97008 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190530T042939Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190530T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190530T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190530T042939Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190530T042939Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250475689 DESCRIPTION: Un-Redacting the Mueller Report and Abstracting the News wit h NLP \;\nBy Hobson Lane and Al Kari \;\n \;\nHobson will show you how to write a python "\;mad-libber"\; that can unredact the Mueller Report. The first person to correctly predict the next word bet ter than the `mad-libber` will win an autographed copy of Natural Langua ge Processing in Action\, a book produced through open collaboration amo ng Portland Python User Group Members\, led by Cole Howard and Hannes Ha pke. Then Hobson and Al Kari will show you how they use this same state- of-the-art language model to generate meaningful abstractive summaries o f technical documents like clinical medical records. \;\n \;\nAbou t our speakers: \;\nHobson Lane's first Python apps were built with t he help of friends at the Portland Python User Group almost a decade ago . Since then he's been using Python for everything from chatbots to buil ding energy consumption forecasting. He's now CTO at Deep Canopy where t hey build smart cameras for industry. In his spare time Hobson teaches P ython and data science on Springboard.com\, Thinkful.com\, and Totalgood .com and preaches crackpot ideas for harnessing the pending AI explosion for the greater good. \;\n \;\nAl Kari is a Google Developer Expe rt (GDE) in Machine Learning\, organizer of the TensorFlow-Northwest mee tup group and CEO of Manceps\, an engineering company focused on providi ng intelligent automation solutions to innovative businesses. \;\n 3\;\nJoin us afterward at Bailey's Upper Lip Upstairs Taproom 213 SW Bro adway to continue the discussion over a beverage. \;\n \;\nDo you have something you'd like to share? \;\n \;\nPDX Python on Twitter (http://twitter.com/pdxpython) \;\n \;\nPortland Python Web Site (http://pdxpython.io/)\n\nTags: python\, NLP\, machine learning\, natura l language processing\, pdxpython\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org /events/1250475689 URL:http://www.pdxpython.io/ SUMMARY: Un-Redacting the Mueller Report and Abstracting the News with NL P @ PDXPython & Pyladies PDX Presentation Night LOCATION:New Relic: 111 SW 5th Avenue\, Suite 2700\, Portland Oregon 9720 4 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190823T221620Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190919T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190919T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190823T221620Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190823T221620Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250476068 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Joachim Rahmfeld\, Ph.D \;\nLecturer at UC Be rkeley \;\n \;\nToday’s vast volumes of language-based\, unstructu red\, electronic data found in various form factors such as blogs\, emai l\, social media\, or web sites\, promises competitive advantages for th ose who can extract business-relevant information most effectively and e fficiently. Natural Language Processing (NLP) holds the key in leveragin g this type of data in order to answer and respond to important question s such as\, “What is the perception of my company in the Twittersphere?” \, “Are these reviews largely positive or negative?”\, “What is the tran slation of this in Spanish?”\, “This document has the answer to my quest ion somewhere… but where?”\, “Are these products similar?” \;\n \; \nParticularly over the last five years\, revolutionary advances in NLP- related Deep Learning algorithms combined with dramatically increased co mpute resources have created unprecedented opportunities to not only ans wer natural language questions with greater accuracy and speed\, but oft en also while requiring significantly less training data. \;\n \;\ nIn this session\, we will provide an overview of these advances and how you can make use of them. A particular focus will be transfer learning where large\, pretrained models\, such as Google’s BERT model\, can be l everaged for a broad set of NLP use cases delivering excellent results\, and enabling you to answer questions that were not possible to answer j ust a few years ago. \;\n \;\nSo this is a great time to learn abo ut recent NLP developments and go through explicit examples. \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout the Speaker \;\n \;\nJoachim started his career in theoretical physics before leaving academia and joining the IT indust ry. For over a decade\, he held various leadership positions in profess ional services\, business development and sales at Sun Microsystems\, VM ware\, and Hitachi Data Systems. In 2015\, Joachim returned to his quant itative roots and obtained a Master of Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley. Most recently\, Joachim managed a Data Science research te am at Edison Software. He currently lectures at UC Berkeley on Natural L anguage Processing with Deep learning and is working on various NLP proj ects. \;\n \;\nWhen \;\n \;\nSept 19th\, 2019 (Chapter meeti ngs held on third Thursday of the month) \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n \;\n8:30 – 9:00 am – Sign In \;\n9:00 – 10:15 am – Presentation&# 13\;\n10:15 – 10:30 am – Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n10:30 – 11 :30 am – Presentation continued \;\n \;\nStandard Insurance Tower Atrium (900 SW 5th\, please note Standard Ins. has multiple downtown loc ations) \;\n \;\nCost \;\n \;\nFree for members (including A LL employees of corporate members) \;\n$15 for non-members \;\n$5 for students with valid student ID \;\n \;\nStandard Insurance Cen ter\, 900 SW 5th Ave\, Portland\, OR 97204\, USA \;\n\n\nTags: NLP\, theory\, datascience\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504 76068 URL:https://damapdx.org/2019/08/23/september-2019-recent-advances-in-natu ral-language-processing-some-theory-applications/ SUMMARY:@DAMAPDX Sept. Chapter Meeting\, Recent Advances in Natural Langu age Processing – (Some) Theory & Applications LOCATION:Standard Insurance Tower Atrium (900 SW 5th): 900 Southwest 5th Avenue\, Portland OR 97204 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR