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SUMMARY:Title to be confirmed - Daniel Bernhardt\, Facebook
DTSTART:20161025T120000Z
DTEND:20161025T130000Z
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CONTACT:Jan Samols
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Daniel will cover the goals and some of the techn
 ical challenges of building Facebook’s Post Search\, a product that allo
 ws people to search through more than 2 trillion posts shared on the netwo
 rk. He will highlight some of the key pieces of this large-scale informati
 on retrieval system\, including his main areas of work: spelling correctio
 n and natural language processing.\n\nDaniel Bernhardt has been working on
  the Search team at Facebook London since August 2013. He is interested in
  search relevance\, metrics and query rewriting. His current work concerns
  query expansions for Facebook Post Search which includes semantic represe
 ntations for queries and query terms\, machine learning components for ran
 king and classification as well as quality measurement. Before joining Fac
 ebook he was a software engineer in web search at Bing London. In 2009 he 
 received a PhD in affective computing from the Computer Laboratory\, Unive
 rsity of Cambridge.
LOCATION:LT1\, Computer Laboratory
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