Druide Informatique is pleased to announce that the eighth Antidote Scholarship in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been awarded to Megh Vipul Thakkar, a master’s student working under the supervision of Professor Sarath Chandar at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila—Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute. Totaling $20,000, the Antidote Scholarship in NLP is endowed by the Druide Fund for Research in Text Analysis, created through a donation from Druide informatique to Université de Montréal.
Mr. Thakkar’s work focuses on developing large language models (LLM), specifically in a multi-agent framework, to build more reliable, benign, and impartial virtual assistants. He is committed to using resource-efficient training techniques to make his research accessible to as many people as possible. Prior to pursuing his master’s degree, he completed a Google Research residency in India and worked as a research assistant at the NTU-Alibaba Joint Research Laboratory in Singapore.
The Antidote Scholarship in NLP is awarded each year to a student in Université de Montréal’s Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) whose work is affiliated with Mila. The scholarship comes from the one-million-dollar Druide Fund for Research in Text Analysis, which was established to celebrate both Antidote’s 20th anniversary and DIRO’s 50th anniversary.
Launched in 1996, Antidote was a trailblazer in integrating artificial intelligence into a software application. Its corrector, guides, and dictionaries have since benefited from more than 25 years of technological and linguistic development. Today, over a million people use Antidote both in English and French, and Druide continues to diligently develop the software. In fact, Druide recently released its first generative reformulation engine based on an LLM as a new feature in Antidote Web.
Druide Informatique has been specializing in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics since 1993. The company produces and markets Antidote, the most comprehensive writing assistance software available for English and French, as well as Typing Pal, the renowned typing tutorial application. In addition to its software, Druide also publishes French-language literature and reference works through its subsidiary, Éditions Druide.
Druide Informatique很高兴地宣布,自然语言处理(NLP)的第八个解毒剂奖学金已授予Megh Vipul Thakkar,他是蒙特利尔理工大学和Mila-Quebec人工智能研究所Sarath Mar教授指导下的硕士生。NLP的解毒剂奖学金总额为20,000美元,由Druide文本分析研究基金捐赠,该基金是通过Druide informatique向蒙特利尔大学捐赠而创建的。
Thakkar先生的工作重点是开发大型语言模型(LLM),特别是在多代理框架中,以构建更可靠,更友好,更公正的虚拟助手。他致力于使用资源高效的培训技术,使尽可能多的人可以访问他的研究。在攻读硕士学位之前,他在印度完成了Google Research驻校,并在新加坡的NTU-Alibaba联合研究实验室担任研究助理。
NLP的解毒剂奖学金每年颁发给蒙特利尔大学计算机科学与运筹学系(DIRO)的一名学生,该学生的工作与Mila有关。该奖学金来自100万美元的Druide文本分析研究基金,该基金是为庆祝Antidote成立20周年和DIRO成立50周年而设立的。
Antidote于1996年推出,是将人工智能集成到软件应用程序中的先驱。它的校正器,指南和词典已经从超过25年的技术和语言发展中受益。今天,超过一百万人使用英语和法语的Antidote,Druide继续努力开发软件。事实上,Druide最近发布了第一个基于LLM的生成重构引擎,作为Antidote Web的一个新功能。
Druide Informatique自1993年以来一直专注于人工智能和计算语言学。该公司生产和销售Antidote,最全面的英语和法语写作辅助软件,以及著名的打字教程应用程序Typing Tutorial。除了软件外,Druide还通过其子公司Editions Druide出版法语文献和参考书。
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