| Nov. 11~12, 2017 1F 聚和宫B区, Dalian International Finance Conference Center（大连国际金融会议中心）
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| Organizations |
Booths |
Description |
| State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing Technology |
A01 |
The Knowledge Service Platform
The Knowledge Service Platform at the State Key Laboratory of Digital Publishing Technology (KS-CNDP) provides users with excellent services and applications of knowledge by mining, reorganizing and associating the contents of resources from different sources. Several advanced techniques and methods in Artificial Intelligence are applied in the Knowledge Service Platform, including Natural Language Processing, Ontology Construction, Data Mining, Knowledge Linking, Knowledge Graph, and so on. Through recursively organizing and analyzing knowledge collected from digital publications, users and the Internet, KS-CNDP helps users solve problems in many aspects and make data more valuable. The huge amount of digital books, newspapers, and other high-quality resources provide reliable data basis for the outstanding service offered by KS-CNDP. The Knowledge Service Platform is committed to providing professional solutions of domain knowledge service for publishers, enterprises, governments and other institutions. For instance, KS-CNDP was responsible for designing and implementing the computation model for evaluating the relation strength between resources in the project of digital resources construction and new-type service of Chinese clothing culture. KS-CNDP also contributed to constructing Chinese Digital Library, an integrated service platform of professional and high-quality Chinese digital contents. Chinese Digital Library collects a variety of digital resources published after 1949, including the full text of books, newspapers, yearbooks, pictures and other characteristic resource products. Chinese Digital Library aims to provide online reading, full text retrieval, offline reading, mobile reading, downloading, printing and other services for libraries, colleges, enterprises, governments and other clients and readers. |
| Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. |
B01 |
Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd.
[Research Orientations]
◆ Multilingual Natural Language Processing: NLP algorithm optimization for statistical machine learning to enhance accuracy and efficiency of natural language comprehension, and support cross-language text data mining technically; ontology-based semantic search technology for more intelligent information discovery; ambiguity resolution combined with machine translation to expand scope of user information acquisition; comprehensive use of knowledge graphs, statistical machine learning and neural networks to enhance system’s cognitive level and self-service capabilities.
◆ Multilingual Machine Translation: Statistical machine translation technology optimization for further performance enhancement based on large-scale corpus training; field adaptive technology research, including data selection, data extraction, data mining, phrase list fusion, etc.; neural machine translation technology to enhance the efficiency of neural network training and decoding while improving accuracy.
◆ Multilingual Speech Recognition: Construction of large-scale multilingual voice corpus which contains voice data in six languages with more than 10,000 hours for each language; deep learning-based technologies to enhance the human-computer interaction capability; voice noise reduction technology in complex environments to improve mobile voice applications’ robustness; cross-language AI voice assistant based on speech recognition, machine translation, natural language processing, etc., to remove communication barriers.
◆ Big Data Capabilities: Data collection: 30 million+ news entities and 500 million social media updates/day, covers 65+ languages and 200+ countries; data service: cross-language data retrieval, intelligent text analysis; data analysis: hundreds of algorithm models, open data interface and parallel computing framework; multi-dimensional data visualization: distributed mass data computing with diversified presentation and customizable analysis charts, third-party integrated interface available; data management: automatic data source discovery, text categorization and annotation, and text structuring.
[Products]
◆ YeeCloud Ecosystem: an integrated service ecosystem based on cloud computing and language big data, aims to provide smart language services for internet users, commercial clients, professional translators and language services providers. Including:Yeekit, YeeCaption, YeeCloud.com, FindYee APP, Translation Input Method, etc.
◆ YeeSight Big Data Ecosystem: a world-leading big data analytical platform which crystallizes commercial values through big data. Including: Insider DI, Insider BUZZ, JOVE BIRD, Yeesight For Public Safety, etc. |
| Tencent |
A05 |
WeChat
Natural language understanding is one of the biggest challenge and fundamental component in creating an intelligent digital assistant. In Wechat AI, our mission is to create chatbots that can understand the need of users so that they can interact naturally with a chatbot machine for information access, question and answering, content recommendation and general chit-chat. One application scenario is to create an intelligent music box like the Amazon Echo that supports a variety of skills such as music search, setting up reminders and alarms, checking weather forecast and etc. We actively explore different application scenarios to make AI more integrated and this improve our life. |
| Alibaba Group |
A02 |
AliMeBot
AliMeBot suite, developed by the Intelligent Service Division of Alibaba Group, is a family of Artificial Intelligence chatbot products, including AliMeBot, AliMeBot Shop Assistant, and AliMeBot Platform. These products enable natural language conversational applications across multiple channels and types of inputs. They can act as decision-making advisors or personal assistants for individual users, as well as to provide intelligent service solutions for enterprises in various scenarios, especially in customer service.
AliMeBot functions as an assistant, facilitating and enhancing user experience offered by different businesses within Alibaba Group. For example, it can work as a customer service consultant, to resolve any claims or complaints; as a shopping guide, to give practical shopping suggestions; as a personal assistant, to help book train tickets and hotels, set up reminders so that no important personal events or shopping promotions are missed. It serves millions of customers everyday.
AliMeBot Shop Assistant helps e-commerce merchants on Alibaba’s platform to provide better customer engagement, to answer customers’ questions more efficiently, and to reduce the cost for human agents.
AliMeBot Platform (on AliYUN) is an open platform for creating chatbots dedicated to providing services, enableing enterprises and developers to build industry-leading chatbots |
| AISpeech Co.,Ltd. |
A03 |
AISpeech—Artificial Intelligent Speech
AISpeech—Artificial Intelligent Speech, founded in Cambridge U.K., focusing on end-to-end spoken dialogue system technology. AISpeech has become a leading speech technology provider in China, specializing in providing solutions for all kinds of intelligent hardware, such as in-car devices, smart home, robots etc.
To meet a wide range of various customer demands, AISpeech integrates modular speech technologies as well as content services into solutions. The solutions are provided in the form of cloud service, local device SDK (including hardware modules), or the combination of these two, to equip intelligent hardware with natural language human-machine interaction ability and necessary services with lowest cost. AISpeech can also provide customization for specific needs of customers.
The core technology modules include：
TTS/text to speech: Convey text into speech. Unlimited vocabulary, male and female, different languages and styles, celebrity speech synthesis.
ASR/automatic speech recognition: High speed on-line continuous speech transcribing, far-field speech recognition, noise-robust speech recognition, local/embedded speech recognition.
ASR++: Customizable wake-up words, speaker verification/recognition, gender identification, etc.
SDS/spoken dialogue system: Statistical dialogue state tracking and response, hybrid solutions of QA and task oriented systems, barge-in and automatic error recovery.
SLU/spoken language understanding: Over 20 highly optimized domains, statistical intent and slot recognition, slot/intent customization, ASR error robust parsing. |
| China Mobile Online Services Co.,ltd. |
A07 |
China Mobile Online Services Co.,ltd.
With the huge number of the mobile users in China, it is a big challenge for traditional telecom operators to meet the increasing needs of the customer service. It is urgent to introduce AI customer service technology to share parts of customer service working load in order to reduce the customer service cost of the enterprise. According to the requirement of China mobile customer service, we study thoroughly customers’ language characteristics and subtle semantic of customers’ natural language expression. We build a China Mobile customer service knowledge base, which provides knowledge support and reasoning capacity to intelligent customer service. With deep learning algorithms and customized knowledge base, our system can reply various customer questions correctly and recommend timely related information to the user to enhance the users’ satisfaction. At present, our customer service system serves 15 million China Mobile customers per month with high quality system responses,over 70 million queries per month. The answer accuracy and customer satisfaction have reached the leading level of AI customer service systems. |
| Microsoft Research Asia |
B02 |
Advanced NLP Technologies and Applications in Microsoft
Two advanced NLP technologies and applications from Microsoft are demonstrated. The first one is poem written by Xiaoice. The system studied over 500 influential modern poets since 1920, and over 10,000 iteration learnings in 100 hours formed the bot's unique writing style. A book titled "Sunshine Misses Windows" is published, and it is the first one written by an AI in human history. The Second one is Presentation Translator, a new Microsoft translation project, which aims to break down the language barrier by allowing users to offer live, subtitled presentations straight from PowerPoint. As you speak, the add-in powered by the Microsoft Translator live feature, allows you to display subtitles directly on your PowerPoint presentation in any one of more than 60 supported text languages. |
| Baidu Inc. |
A08 |
Natural Language Processing at Baidu
Some advanced NLP technologies and applications from Baidu will be demonstrated. We will update Baidu's research advancement and achievement in NLP technologies, such as machine translation, question answering and intelligent interaction. We will also demonstrate the impact of NLP technologies in Baidu's core products, including innovative applications and extensive impacts. Now the NLP technologies support about 100 applications at Baidu and the modules are called up more than 200 billion times per day. Some of them are available at Baidu’s AI platform http://ai.baidu.com, including lexical analysis, syntactic parsing, semantic analysis and calculation, sentiment analysis, query understanding, dialogue management, machine translation, etc. |
| Artificial Intelligence Technology Center |
A04 |
Multilingual Deep Mining Engine
 Multilingual Deep Mining Engine provides the data covering millions of text sources all over the world (news, social media, blogs, forums, TV, paper media, etc.). supports 69 languages and could be traced back to 1980. It is based on Apache Flink real-time streaming processing platform and the NLU (natural language understanding) technology. The low-value and unstructured text data of information overload will be transferred to high value and structured events database. It will provide processing technology and basic data services for the industrial big data products. |
| GRIDSUM |
B03 |
Gridsum
Gridsum Holding Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies in China. Gridsum’s core technology, the Gridsum Big Data Platform, is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enables Gridsum’s customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named “Gridsum” to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer, the Company’s mission is to help enterprises and government organizations in China use data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.
For more information, please visit http://www.gridsum.com/.
Follow us on Weibo (@国双Gridsum) and WeChat (ID: gridsumtech). |
| Bytedance（Toutiao) |
B04 |
Toutiao AI Lab
Established in 2016, Bytedance’s AI lab is committed to cutting edge research in artificial intelligence. The lab leverages Toutiao’s huge datasets and integrates the latest AI technology into products to create an increasingly better experience for hundreds of millions of users. AI is used to create, disseminate, and manage content as well as to boost user interactions. In addition, the lab is always exploring new frontiers, pushing boundaries, and studying fundamental problems in AI. Ultimately, the lab’s vision is to improve the efficiency and depth of information and knowledge sharing. |
| Sogou |
B08 |
Sogou Search
Sogou Search, to make it easier to express and get information: Sogou Search, as the second largest provider of search engine services in China, boasts more than 500 million active users monthly. It sorts quality content from WeChat, Zhihu, Bing and many other sources, with a goal to create the best differentiated user experience. At the same time, it continues to improve products and services in the fields of natural interaction and knowledge computing, proactively probing into smart life activities aided by artificial intelligence technology. In addition, beyond content in Chinese, Sogou Search have developed a cross-language search service that enables Chinese users to discover English content on the Internet by querying in Chinese and reading content that we have translated into Chinese, breaking the language barriers between Chinese users and worldwide information. In conclusion, Sogou is at the forefront of Search Technology innovation. It’s advanced Q&A technology makes it is possible to provide direct answers in response to user queries, and can be applied to a wide range of verticals.
Sogou Overseas Search: Combining Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and search engine, Sogou Overseas Search is so far the only cross-languages search engine in the world. It enables Chinese users to access to global information by searching in Chinese
Sogou Translation: With NMT technology, Sogou Translation delivers the industry-leading translation results and provides multiple translation functions such as text, voice, image and dialogue translation |
| Naturali |
A06 |
Naturali
Naturali is building a dnn-based skills engine to add a conversational interface on top of all existing apps on mobile devices so that user can directly access any functionalities by simply saying what they want.
Problem: Conversation UI (CUI) is great as it imposes minimal cognitive load on the user. However, it is also problematic in several aspects. First, one has to reimplement the most of UX from scratch, which makes the expansion of functionalities a very slow process. Secondly, it requires lengthy business negotiations for integrating third party APIs. Thirdly, one has to convince end users to abandon their existing apps to use the new UX. All of these explains why Siri has not become a new UI after more than 5 years.
Solution: Instead of pure CUI, we propose a CGUI approach where we add conversational interaction to any existing GUI app so that user can get things done by simply saying it. Specifically, our skill engine translates a voice command into a sequence of GUI actions (e.g., clicking and swiping) through Android Accessibility. While new skills in other voice assistants can only be added with engineering effort, anyone, including end-users, can create new CGUI based skills by pairing a command and a demonstration of how it is done in an app. We rely on GPU-based semi-supervised learning on terabytes of text to create an initial system that provides enough functionalities and incentives for users to engage and expand our system.
Result: Our CGUI app has been integrated into LeTV, and we are in the process of releasing it as a third party app on all major platforms in Chinese market. Users can access functionalities in more than 100 apps via voice commands, and this number is increasing every days. Many of these functionalities are deep into the app, such as "wechat payment" or filtering flight selections by airlines in Ctrip. |
| Xinhuazhiyun |
B07 |
Xinhuazhiyun: Compute, Insight, Connect, Intelligence
Xinhuazhiyun is a joint venture founded by Alibaba Group and Xinhua News Agency. We are devoted to bring news production and distribution to the era of big data, A.I., VR/AR, and Cloud, utilise Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graph, Computer Vision, Deep Learning to power every step in the media ecology system. Our aim is to help journalists gather materials and produce new pieces in a more efficient way, to provide copyright, fact-checking, media sentiment services on the news aggregation platform, to help the distribution with automated summarising, personalised recommendation system, and dialog engine. We are committed to redefine the core and lead the revolution of news industry in the new era. It is our believe that technology will one day illuminate the future of content providers. |
| YaTrans Network Technology Co., Ltd. |
B05 |
NiuTrans, Machine Translation Expert
YaTrans Co., Ltd. was founded in 2012 by NLP Lab of Northeastern University with MT expertise for 37 years Self-developing NiuTrans with Neural MT at the core Presently supporting translation between Chinese and 43 languages Providing the best MT service solutions for business users 40+ business partners, including Tencent, iFLYTEC, Huawei, Ctrip, VIP.com, Unisound, SYSTRAN, SIPO and a dozen government agencies |
| Lenovo |
A09 |
Lenovo Research
Lenovo Research AI Lab is the key driver of Lenovo's Device + Cloud Powered by AI strategy. We aim to develop cutting-edge AI technologies and platforms. We provide user-centric services and next-generation, personalized human machine interaction experience for smarter life and smarter work. AI Lab looks to build an AI innovation eco-system and closely collaborate with academia and business partners in the areas of smart assistant, e-health, smart city and business intelligence. |
| SoftBank Robotics |
B06 |
SoftBank Robotics
Leader in humanoid robotics, SoftBank Robotics is the creator of the robots NAO,Pepper and Romeo, used today in more than 70 countries worldwide,in various fields, such as research, education, retail, healthcare, tourism, hospitality or entertainment.Our goal is to make robots accessible to everyone,the aim being that they will become our daily companions. We believe in a future where humanoid robots will assist humans in their family lives, in their leisure activities and in their work. |
