Keynote Speakers

William Wang, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Anju Kambadur, Head of AI Engineering, Bloomberg LP
Xiaodan Zhu, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University

Presentation Schedule

All timestamps reflect Pacific Time Zone (PST).

Time Title Speakers/Authors Link to Video
8:50am-9:00am Opening remarks Sameena Shah  
9:00am-9:35am Keynote: FinQA: Understanding Financial Statements with Question Answering William Wang
(UCSB)
9:35am-9:45am Multi-modal Attention Network for Stock Movements Prediction Shuai He
(The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
9:45am-9:55am GUID: A Knowledge Graph and Attention based User Interest Diffusion Process for Recommendation Ding Tu
(China Foriegn Exchange Trading System Information Technology)		  
9:55am-10:05am Learning to Select the Next Reasonable Mention for Entity Linking Jian Sun
(University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
10:05am-10:15am One Shock, Many Disruptions: Firm Experience After India’s Demonetization Alexandra Schofield
(Harvey Mudd College)		  
10:15am-10:50am Keynote: Search and Discovery in News and Research Anju Kambadur
(Bloomberg LP)		  
10:50am-11:10am break  
11:10am-11:20am A Closer Look to Your Business Network: Multitask Relation Extraction from Economic and Financial French Content Hadjer Khaldi
(IRIT - Toulouse)		  
11:20am-11:30am Dichotomic Pattern Mining with Applications to Intent Prediction from Semi-Structured Clickstream Datasets Xin Wang
(Fidelity Investments)		  
11:30am-11:40am Semi-Structured Query Grounding for Document-Oriented Databases with Deep Retrieval and Its Application to Receipt and POI Matching Geewook Kim
(Naver Corp)
11:40am-12:15pm Keynote: Towards Robust Fact Verification Based on Text and Tables Xiaodan Zhu
(Queen’s University)
12:15pm-12:20pm closing remarks Xiaomo Liu
(JPMorgan AI Research)