Abstract: Personalization is to provide information or services that are tailed to individual users. User profiling is a critical component of Personalization. How to profile users’ preferences, interests, and human level attributes such as personality accurately to facilitate effective personalization remains an open research topic. This talk will present our recent work in profiling information system users and literature characters for personalized item recommendation and dialogue generation. We proposed novel data mining and machine learning techniques including reinforcement learning, graph learning, Natural Language Processing on various types of modality data including rating, tags, review, item images, temporal information, and relations. Experiments were conducted on large-scale real-world datasets from online communities such as IMDB and Amazon and literature books.



Bio: Dr. Huizhi (Elly) Liang is a senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. Huizhi received her PhD degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Before joining Newcastle University in 2022, she worked at University of Reading, LIP6, Pierre et Marie Curie University and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Melbourne, and Australian National University. Her research interests include Data Mining, Machine Learning, NLP, Dialogue Agents, Personalization, Recommender Systems.



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At the core of OCLW's new programme on Writing Jewish Women's Lives, our new series of afternoon literary seminars are a chance to discuss books by and about Jewish women. At this seminar we welcome authors Lisa Appignanesi and Devorah Baum to talk about loss and grief, love and laughter, and being Jewish.



Losing the Dead is Lisa’s profound memoir of the time she returned to Poland on a quest to seek out her mother’s wartime secrets at the very moment when her mother’s own memory was getting lost to Alzheimer’s. In so doing, Lisa was led to reflect on the secrets of her own past and identity formations. Devorah, who happens to be Lisa's daughter-in-law, draws on some related tropes of memoir and psychoanalysis in her writing and film-making. In this conversation, Lisa and Devorah will discuss Losing the Dead and then, more generally, the role played by familial stories in their work.

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Baudouin Dupret is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is also a lecturer in Islamic law at the University of Louvain.

In his work, Professor Dupret combines approaches from Law, Islamic Studies, and Anthropology to study how law functions in practice within Muslim environments. Over the course of his career, he has spent many years in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco.

His most recent book, Positive Law from the Muslim World (2021, CUP), explores the extent to which the concept of law can be expanded beyond the context of positive state law.