{"id":126,"date":"2009-05-14T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-07-10T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T01:11:14","slug":"pablo-gervas-to-speak-at-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/05\/pablo-gervas-to-speak-at-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Gerv\u00e1s to Speak at MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/if\/purple_blurb\/\">Purple Blurb series<\/a> offers a special talk by a leading European researcher in creative text generation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right; margin-left: 8px\"><figure id=\"attachment_129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/pabloninos.jpg\" alt=\"Pablo Gerv\u00e1s (center) keeps his head above water.\" title=\"Pablo Gerv\u00e1s\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/pabloninos.jpg 310w, https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/pabloninos-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pablo Gerv\u00e1s (center) keeps his head above water.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>Pablo Gerv\u00e1s works as associate professor (profesor titular de universidad) at the Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Inform\u00e1tica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nil.fdi.ucm.es\">NIL research group<\/a> and also of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itc.ucm.es\">Instituto de Tecnolog\u00eda del Conocimiento<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His research is on processing natural language input, generating natural language output, building resources for related tasks, and generating stories. In the area of creative text generation, he has done work on automatically generating metaphors, formal poetry, and short films.<\/p>\n<p>He will speak on <b>Wednesday May 20, 6pm-7pm,<\/b> at MIT in room <b>14E-310.<\/b> The talk is (as with all Purple Blurb presentations) open to the public, and (as with all Purple Blurb presentations so far) will be in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, the Purple Blurb series offers a special talk by a leading European researcher in creative text generation. Pablo Gerv\u00e1s works as associate professor (profesor titular de universidad) at the Departamento de Ingenier\u00eda del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Inform\u00e1tica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the director of the NIL research group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/05\/pablo-gervas-to-speak-at-mit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pablo Gerv\u00e1s to Speak at MIT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,29,30,22,13],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-digital","tag-purple-blurb","tag-story-generation","tag-upcoming","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}