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Oct 13th 2021
Research Post
Which acoustic features support the language-cognition link in infancy: A machine-learning approach
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Apr 30th 2021
News
Amii Presentations & Papers at ICLR 2021
The ninth annual ICLR is taking place May 3-7 online this year! We are proud to share that the work of our researchers are being included in the proceedings.
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Mar 4th 2021
Research Post
Neural representation of words within phrases: Temporal evolution of color-adjectives and object-nouns during simple composition
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Mar 3rd 2021
Research Post
Improved object recognition using neural networks trained to mimic the brain's statistical properties
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Jan 22nd 2021
Research Post
Words as a window: Using word embeddings to explore the learned representations of Convolutional Neural Networks
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Nov 16th 2020
Research Post
From Language to Language-ish: How Brain-Like is an LSTM's Representation of Nonsensical Language Stimuli?
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Nov 9th 2020
News
Amii research papers accepted at EMNLP 2020
Amii commends the involvement of our researchers in this year’s conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), taking place November 16-20.
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Nov 2nd 2020
News
Alona Fyshe awarded a spot in Edify Edmonton's Top 40 Under 40
We are proud to share that this year, Amii Fellow, University of Alberta Professor and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been awarded a spot in the Top 40 Under 40.
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Sep 4th 2020
Research Post
Quantifying Depressed Social Media During COVID-19: Information Retrieval With ML & NLP
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Aug 25th 2020
News
Alona Fyshe to moderate a panel at the 2020 Women in AI Global Summit
Amii Fellow Alona Fyshe will be moderating a panel discussion of Canadian female tech leaders in the upcoming Women in AI (WAI) Global Summit.
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Jul 16th 2020
News
Recommended Reading: Researchers turning to social media to study mental health concerns during the pandemic
Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, Alona Fyshe, spoke recently with CTV about her work tracking mental health during the pandemic.
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Jul 10th 2020
Research Post
Improved object recognition using neural networks trained to mimic the brain’s statistical properties
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May 21st 2020
News
Amii researcher co-awarded $2.5 million to study literacy in a digital and multicultural world
Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Alona Fyshe has been named a co-recipient of a $2.5 million grant to study literacy in a digital and multicultural world.
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May 12th 2020
News
CIFAR AI and COVID Catalyst Grants: Managing the Pandemic with AI
Five Amii Fellows were awarded research grants as part of CIFAR’s AI and COVID Catalyst Grants initiative. The CIFAR AI Catalyst Grants Program is intended to catalyze new research areas and collaborations in machine learning, providing funding for innovative, high-risk, high-reward ideas and projects.
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Apr 29th 2020
News
Amii Researchers dig deep at renowned international conference ICLR 2020
Amii is proud of our researchers' work being featured at ICLR 2020, running online this year from April 26 to May 1. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to advancing the branch of AI called representation learning, also referred to as deep learning.
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Jul 16th 2019
Research Post
The lexical semantics of adjective–noun phrases in the human brain
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Dec 3rd 2018
News
Amii welcomes four Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
Together with UAlberta and Simon Fraser University, Amii is pleased to welcome four new Canada CIFAR AI Chairs to our family: Angel Chang, Alona Fyshe, Martha White and James Wright.
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Jun 1st 2018
Research Post
The Emergence of Semantics in Neural Network Representations of Visual Information
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May 31st 2015
Research Post
A Compositional and Interpretable Semantic Space
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