Human Language Technology (HLT) cannot be “future proofed” because the target is organic, ever changing, human language. Like a weather forecast, a static model is only accurate at a point in time. What we need is the NLP equivalent of a weather app pulling in streaming live weather data. Adaptation is the future of HLT: continuously learning models that are quickly spun up with an annotation effort to “crawl”; then ada...

Our theme of Using Data to Defend is more critical than ever, given the security challenges of moving customers and vendors online and supporting a remote workforce. The online conference will be held on January 12-15, 2021. FloCon 2021 focuses on using “big data” to solve difficult security problems. Its practical, practitioner-oriented sessions feature online training, presentations, and keynote speakers from the security and dat...

A recent World Economic Forum report warned that the three top global risks to society, by likelihood, are: Extreme Weather Events Natural Disasters Cyber Attacks No U.S. cybersecurity division deals with this tricky trifecta daily, except for the exceptional team at NOAA. Covering from sea to space, NOAA provides minute-to-minute data about the conditions of our oceans, our major waterways and our atmosphere. And to do it without any interru...