ICAI MMLL Webinar series

This series of webinars will focus on causality, information retrieval, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning. Each event will be 1 hour with a short introduction (5 min), a 40-minute talk by the keynote speaker, and a 15 minute Q&A

The ICAI Mercury Machine Learning Lab is a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, and Booking.com. The lab focuses on the development and applications of artificial intelligence to the specific domain of online travel booking and recommendation service systems

The Mercury Machine Learning Lab combines academic expertise in causality, information retrieval, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning with the unique expertise, experience, and availability of big data at Booking.com.

Program

15.00: Introduction of the Mercury Machine Learning Lab lab by Onno Zoeter( Booking.com)
15.20: Prof. dr. Juan D. Correa (Universidad Autónoma de Manizales) presents “Generalization of Causal and Statistical Quantities under Transportability and Selection Bias”
16.00: Q& A
16.15: End

The webinar is planned for the following dates:

· March 10 15:00-16:30 Prof. dr. Juan D. Correa on causality (kick-off)
· March 31 15:00-16:00 Prof. dr.Nikos Vlassis on reinforcement learning
· April 7 15:00-16:00 (tbd) on natural language processing
· April 21 15:00-16:00 Prof. dr. Mounia Lalmas on information retrieval