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:STANDARD DTSTART:20131103T020000 RDATE:20131103T020000 RDATE:20141102T020000 RDATE:20151101T020000 RDATE:20161106T020000 RDATE:20171105T020000 RDATE:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20140309T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 RDATE:20160313T020000 RDATE:20170312T020000 RDATE:20180311T020000 RDATE:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140128T022337Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140206T220000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140206T190000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140128T022337Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140207T011659Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465583 DESCRIPTION:Sorry folks. We'll re-schedule soon! \;\n \;\nPDX Spee ch and Language Processing Happy Hour is an informal gathering of indivi duals working in computational linguistics\, speech\, and natural langua ge processing in the Portland metro area. No talks\, just socializing\, but shop talk encouraged. Some folks will be around 7-10\, so drop in a s your schedule permits. At Orenco Taphouse. \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: n atural language processing\, computational linguistics\, speech\, machin e learning\, happy hour\, beer\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/ev ents/1250465583 SUMMARY:CANCELLED: PDX Speech and Language Processing Happy Hour LOCATION:Orenco Taphouse: 1198 NE Orenco Station Pkwy\, Hillsboro OR 9712 4 SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT 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:20180926T155207Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181010T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181010T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180926T155207Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180926T155207Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250474331 DESCRIPTION:We'll have a short presentation on deep NLP and review the pa per "\;StarSpace: Embed All The Things!"\; \;\n \;\nThe ma jor vendors in cloud-based services are starting to provide machine lear ning as a service\, such as Google Cloud AutoML Natural Language and Azu re Language Understanding (LUIS). Jim Tyhurst will give a brief demonstr ation of IBM Watson Natural Language Classifier service (https://www.ibm .com/watson/services/natural-language-classifier/)\, which enables you t o build a custom classifier with no programming. Just create a new insta nce and submit training data. When the system has finished training\, yo u can submit a document through a web API. The system responds with JSON \, giving a list of some possible categories with a confidence score ass ociated with each category. We will discuss some of the advantages and d isadvantages of this service. \;\n \;\nStarSpace: Embed All The Th ings! - describes a general-purpose neural embedding model that can solv e a wide variety of problems: labeling tasks such as text classification \, ranking tasks such as information retrieval/web search\, collaborativ e filtering-based or content-based recommendation\, embedding of multi-r elational graphs\, and learning word\, sentence or document level embedd ings. https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03856\n\nTags: deep leaning\, machine l earning\, natural language processing\, embeddings\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250474331 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Deep-Learning/events/254853087/ SUMMARY: Wednesday\, October 10\, 2018 Peer mentoring\, NLP presentation and StarSpace Embedding paper review 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:20181102T172711Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181108T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181108T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181102T172711Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181102T172711Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250474519 DESCRIPTION:DetailsSame place\, still looking for speakers. If you have a nything you would like to present\, let me know! If you need parking\, t here's a parking deck below Safeway. Agenda: 6:00 p.m.: Food\, beverage\ , and networking 6:40 p.m.: Welcome message by Karl Fezer 6:45 p.m: Spea ker 1: "\;Transfer Learning\, or How to Stand on the Shoulders of Gi ants"\; - James DiPadua7:30 p.m: Speaker 2: "\;Quantum Mechanics for Modeling Composite Semantic Spaces"\; - Connor Favreau8:15 p.m. - 8:30: Project Ideas. Pitch your Project Ideas to this meetup group 8:3 0: End Speaker 1 Details: Abstract: There's been a mountain of research into Deep Neural Networks' practical applications in image\, audio and t ext processing. But these deep networks are often built on large corpuse s of data (such as ImageNet or Wikipedia). But that may not apply direct ly to your domain. Gathering data specific to your problem space may not only be a lengthy process but an expensive one too. That makes the busi ness win a hard sell. Transfer Learning can dramatically eliminate many of those problems\, quickly. In 'How to stand on the shoulders of giants \,' we'll discuss the research background into Transfer Learning and how to implement the process in either Keras or PyTorch. The goal is for li steners to feel comfortable with the concept and prepared to begin resea rching an application in their workspaces. Bio: James is a wanderer\, ti nkerer\, and ponderer. Not one to be pinned down\, he's more comfortable in the abstract than in the known. He embraces ambiguity with a bearhug . That's a trick of course. He bear hugs the ambiguity into little mathe matical boxes and then says "\;Dance!"\; and\, oh\, how that amb iguity dances! James currently hangs his hat at Vacasa where he works as a Senior Data Scientist tackling a myriad of growth-objectives with eng ineering and machine learning. Speaker 2 Details: Five years ago\, Word2 Vec offered a leap forward for the average data scientist to perform eff icient algorithms in Natural Language Processing. From a body of text\, Word2Vec generates a semantic space\, in which the trained word vectors are often highly associated with their meaning. The next leap\, a semant ic space for phrases and sentences\, proves tougher both computationally and in faithfully representing a composite meaning over multiple words. Surprisingly\, quantifying particle interactions a la quantum mechanics shares close mathematical similarity to quantifying the meaning of word s\, phrases\, and sentences. In this talk\, I will provide an overview o f current techniques in modeling language past word vectors\, as well as point out the quantum mechanical aspects of these techniques. Emphasis will be placed on the “Compositional Distributional Semantics” model for the task of identifying word ambiguity."\;\n\nTags: meetup:event=ld wlhqyxpblb\, meetup:group=Portland-Machine-Learning-Meetup\, Artificial Intelligence\, natural language processing\, machine learning\, predicti ve analytics\, Deep Learning\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/even ts/1250474519 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Machine-Learning-Meetup/events/254338 888/ SUMMARY:Portland Machine Learning Meetup - PDX ML LOCATION:Uncorked Studios: 811 SE Stark St.\, Portland or 97214 us 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:20190223T063743Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190307T210000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190307T180000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190223T063743Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190223T063743Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250475130 DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the kick-off of Dynamic Talks in Portland! D ynamic Talks is an ongoing meetup series featuring technical talks from some of the leading experts in tech in major cities around the US. Enjoy talks about the most innovative subjects in: AI\, ML\, voice platforms\ , the Cloud and search. Every event is free\, with complimentary food an d drinks. In Portland\, the topic of our first event will be “Voice Plat forms\, Conversational Commerce and NLU”. The speakers for this event wi ll be Victoria Livschitz\, Founder and CTO of Grid Dynamics\, and Eugene Steinberg\, Technical Fellow at Grid Dynamics. Come enjoy a night of te chnical talks and networking opportunities at CoLab Coworking Portland i n Tigard. We hope to see you there! Agenda [6:00PM - 6:30PM]: Guests arr ive\, pizza and drinks are served [6:30PM - 7:15PM]: First talk will be presented by Victoria Livschitz on “Conversational commerce: emerging ar chitectures for smart &\; useful chatbots"\;\, followed by a Q&am p\;A [7:15PM - 7:30PM]: Networking break [7:30PM - 8:15PM]: Second talk will be presented by Eugene Steinberg on "\;Not your fathers search engine: deep learning applications for e-commerce search"\;\, follow ed by a Q&\;A [8:15PM] - 9:00PM]: More networking and the event ends Talk details: Victoria Livschitz's talk details: Title: "\;Conversat ional commerce: emerging architectures for smart &\; useful chatbots& quot\; Abstract: Smart speakers and messaging apps are increasing in pop ularity due to their convenience\, intuitive usage\, and new user experi ences. Companies are racing to develop voice interfaces and AI technolog ies in order to utilize smart speakers and messaging platforms as a sale s channel. We are introducing Grid Genie\, a completely open source\, mu lti-device\, conversational commerce platform. With this technology\, we can help you engineer a powerful platform to combine your Alexa skills\ , Google actions\, and Facebook Messenger into a single seamless experie nce. Eugene Steinberg's talk details: Title: "\;Not your fathers sea rch engine: deep learning applications for e-commerce search"\; Abst ract: In this talk\, we will discuss how recent advancements in artifici al intelligence are transforming traditional search technologies. Deep l earning-based image analysis and natural language processing open exciti ng new horizons for search and recommendation applications across the in dustries. We’ll talk about how deep learning models can help conventiona l search engines to achieve better relevance. We will share our experien ce implementing innovative solutions for online retailers\, finance and high tech customers.\n\nTags: meetup:event=258073772\, meetup:group=Dyna mic-Talks-Portland\, Artificial Intelligence\, open source\, cloud compu ting\, big data\, natural language processing\, machine learning\, data analytics\, devops\, data science\, ecommerce technology\, continuous de livery\, big data analytics\, microservices\, enterprise application dev elopment\, natural language understanding\n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250475130 URL:https://www.meetup.com/Dynamic-Talks-Portland/events/258073772/ SUMMARY:Dynamic Talks: Portland - Dynamic Talks: Portland "Voice interfac es\, conversational commerce\, and NLU" LOCATION:CoLab Coworking Portland: 11481 SW Hall Blvd #201\, Tigard OR 97 223 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 END:VCALENDAR