Track / Overview

Machine Learning is transforming the media landscape. This applies to the creation of content as well as the analysis of its consumption. Additionally, recent advances in the treatment of text and pictures allow the extension to fields which are fundamental to the media domain but have been difficult to investigate so far. In this session, we want to explore new possibilities and challenges of the "fourth power".

Track / Schedule

Machine learning for better conversations at scale

With Lucas Dixon

Break

Bias in Algorithms – a case study for comment classifications

With Marcel Blattner

Pay Attention to Virality – understanding popularity of social media videos

With Tomasz Trzciński

Dynamic Paywall for Readers Conversion

With Christian Ammendola

Coffee Break

The sleeping giants: AI and TV operators

With Pietro Berkes

How to make the best of an image repository to illustrate editorial stories – Text-Image Retrieval and Face Recognition

With Rémi Lebret & Didier Orel

Applied Media Learning. The Mermaid Approach to Capturing Audience Attention

With Janine Lee

Break

What Do You Think? – Language Models for Snippet Extraction from News Article Comments

With Tim Nonner

Handling High Cardinality Categoricals via Target Encodings

With Anastasios Zouzias

Track / Speakers

Tim Nonner

Chief Data Scientist, TX Group

Christian Ammendola

Head of Data, Analytics & AI, Neue Züricher Zeitung

Pietro Berkes

Principal Data Scientist, Kudelski Group

Rémi Lebret

Research Scientist, EPFL

Marcel Blattner

Principal Data Scientist, Swiss Data Science Center (ETH Zürich/EPFL)

Anastasios Zouzias

Senior Data Scientist, Sqooba

Lucas Dixon

Chief Scientist, Jigsaw

Tomasz Trzciński

Chief Scientist, Tooploox / Warsaw University of Technology

Didier Orel

Digital Innovation Project Manager, Tamedia

Janine Lee

Head Of Business Intelligence, Ringier Axel Springer

Track / Co-organizers

Tim Nonner

Chief Data Scientist, TX Group

AMLD EPFL 2019 / Tracks & talks

AI & Environment

Mikhail Kanevski, Vasily Demyanov, Sylvain Coutu, Maria Schönholzer, Walter Jetz, Grant van Horn, Saman Halgamuge, Antonino Marvuglia, Dan Assouline, Bojie Sheng, Sebastian Sippel, Alexis Berne, Michele Volpi, Maxim Samarin

13:30-17:00 January 2809:00-12:30 January 293BC

AI & Cities

Mohamed Kafsi, Cristina Kadar, Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Valentine Goddard, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Piotr Mirowski, Niklas Goby, Christopher Nowzohour, Stephen Goldsmith

13:30-17:00 January 284BC

AI & Computer Systems

Kevin Smeyers, Michael Papamichael, Andreas Moshovos, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Svetlana Levitan

09:00-12:30 January 294BC

AMLD / Global partners