NAVER is Korea’s premier internet company and a global leader in online services like NAVER search (30M DAU), LINE messaging (164M MAU) and WEBTOON (62M MAU). NAVER invests nearly 30 percent of revenue in R&D and, through advanced technology, is seamlessly connecting the physical and digital worlds. Its AI and Robotics research in Asia and Europe is fundamental to creating this future. Innovation is but one core value. Others are knowledge sharing, diversity and respect.
Papago: the popular neural machine translation cloud service from NAVER.
NAVER LABS Europe, the biggest industrial research lab in AI in France. NLP, search and recommendation, computer vision, optimization, UX & ethnography.
NAVER Corporation, Korea’s premier Internet company and a global leader in online services. 5th biggest global search engine.
Tuesday July 7th 0400 – 0445 PDT [1100 – 1145 GMT ∣ 1300 – 1345 CEST ∣ 2000 – 2045 KST]
NLP at NAVER LABS Europe: a live discussion
In this session our NLP research lead, Matthias Gallé, will give an overview of our latest activities, focusing in particular on the topic of learning with less supervision (unsupervised summarization, zero-shot NMT, etc). A large part of the slot will be dedicated to questions. He’ll also present ALPS an NLP winter school scheduled for January 2021 in the French alps!
NAVER LABS Europe is the largest French industrial research centre in AI. We publish and participate at top-tier conferences, co-organise events, host students and professors and liaise with product groups.
Speaker: Matthias Gallé, NAVER LABS Europe
NLP Research & Services of NAVER: Papago machine translation
Papago is an online translation service provided by NAVER. The MT team within Papago focuses on advancing machine translation quality, mostly for Eastern Asian languages such as Korean, Japanese, Chinese. In this session, we will discuss some major research topics of the team and the methods we use to enhance the user experience (ex: honorific translation, translation evaluation). We’ll also share results from our collaboration with the NAVER LABS Europe machine translation team, who recently provided high-quality translations for COVID-19 related phrases.
Introduction to Papago MT and NAVER LABS Europe MT
Speaker: Lucy Park (Papago), Ioan Calapodescu, Vassilina Nikoulina , Stéphane Clinchant (NAVER LABS Europe)
Wednesday July 8th 0330 – 0400 PDT [1030 – 1100 GMT ∣ 1230-1300 CEST ∣ 1930 – 2000 KST]
NLP Research & Services of NAVER: Open Domain Question Answering
Clova AI is the “AI-First” team within NAVER & LINE conducting high-impact research in a wide range of domains to empower various AI-driven products in and out of the company. Clova AI publish at top-tier NLP, machine learning and computer vision conferences. In this session, we will present our recent research findings and new products in conversational agents, document information extraction and question answering.
Speaker: Minjoon Seo (Clova AI, NAVER)
Wednesday July 8th 0400 – 0430 PDT [1100 – 1130 GMT ∣ 1300-1330 CEST ∣ 2000 – 2030 KST]
NLP Research & Services of NAVER: Conversational AI
NAVER focuses on both researching NLP technologies and on disseminating AI-powered products to customers. In this session, we will share our experience in deploying conversational AI technologies into commercialised AI-powered products such as smart speakers, set top boxes and vehicle infotainment systems. We’ll also briefly introduce our ongoing answer snippet extraction.
Speakers: Kyungduk Kim, Hyeon-gu Lee (NLP, NAVER)
[Long] Efficient Dialogue State Tracking by Selectively Overwriting Memory.
Authors: Sungdong Kim, Sohee Yang, Gyuwan Kim, Sang-Woo Lee
17:00–18:00 Session 4A Question Answering-3
NAVER was recognised as a top employer and company university students would like to work for in South Korea for 3 consecutive years (2016 – 2019)
Diversity is the reason NAVER came into existence in 1999.
The need to provide alternatives is a fundamental core value for a healthy society.
We value different ways of thinking about the world and different perceptions of the world.
We try to create an inclusive workplace where respect reigns. A place where everyone can be themselves.
NAVER LABS Europe 6-8 chemin de Maupertuis 38240 Meylan France Contact
To make robots autonomous in real-world everyday spaces, they should be able to learn from their interactions within these spaces, how to best execute tasks specified by non-expert users in a safe and reliable way. To do so requires sequential decision-making skills that combine machine learning, adaptive planning and control in uncertain environments as well as solving hard combinatorial optimization problems. Our research combines expertise in reinforcement learning, computer vision, robotic control, sim2real transfer, large multimodal foundation models and neural combinatorial optimization to build AI-based architectures and algorithms to improve robot autonomy and robustness when completing everyday complex tasks in constantly changing environments. More details on our research can be found in the Explore section below.
For a robot to be useful it must be able to represent its knowledge of the world, share what it learns and interact with other agents, in particular humans. Our research combines expertise in human-robot interaction, natural language processing, speech, information retrieval, data management and low code/no code programming to build AI components that will help next-generation robots perform complex real-world tasks. These components will help robots interact safely with humans and their physical environment, other robots and systems, represent and update their world knowledge and share it with the rest of the fleet. More details on our research can be found in the Explore section below.
Visual perception is a necessary part of any intelligent system that is meant to interact with the world. Robots need to perceive the structure, the objects, and people in their environment to better understand the world and perform the tasks they are assigned. Our research combines expertise in visual representation learning, self-supervised learning and human behaviour understanding to build AI components that help robots understand and navigate in their 3D environment, detect and interact with surrounding objects and people and continuously adapt themselves when deployed in new environments. More details on our research can be found in the Explore section below.
Details on the gender equality index score 2024 (related to year 2023) for NAVER France of 87/100.
The NAVER France targets set in 2022 (Indicator n°1: +2 points in 2024 and Indicator n°4: +5 points in 2025) have been achieved.
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Index NAVER France de l’égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes pour l’année 2024 au titre des données 2023 : 87/100
Détail des indicateurs :
Les objectifs de progression de l’Index définis en 2022 (Indicateur n°1 : +2 points en 2024 et Indicateur n°4 : +5 points en 2025) ont été atteints.
Details on the gender equality index score 2024 (related to year 2023) for NAVER France of 87/100.
1. Difference in female/male salary: 34/40 points
2. Difference in salary increases female/male: 35/35 points
3. Salary increases upon return from maternity leave: Non calculable
4. Number of employees in under-represented gender in 10 highest salaries: 5/10 points
The NAVER France targets set in 2022 (Indicator n°1: +2 points in 2024 and Indicator n°4: +5 points in 2025) have been achieved.
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Index NAVER France de l’égalité professionnelle entre les femmes et les hommes pour l’année 2024 au titre des données 2023 : 87/100
Détail des indicateurs :
1. Les écarts de salaire entre les femmes et les hommes: 34 sur 40 points
2. Les écarts des augmentations individuelles entre les femmes et les hommes : 35 sur 35 points
3. Toutes les salariées augmentées revenant de congé maternité : Incalculable
4. Le nombre de salarié du sexe sous-représenté parmi les 10 plus hautes rémunérations : 5 sur 10 points
Les objectifs de progression de l’Index définis en 2022 (Indicateur n°1 : +2 points en 2024 et Indicateur n°4 : +5 points en 2025) ont été atteints.
To make robots autonomous in real-world everyday spaces, they should be able to learn from their interactions within these spaces, how to best execute tasks specified by non-expert users in a safe and reliable way. To do so requires sequential decision-making skills that combine machine learning, adaptive planning and control in uncertain environments as well as solving hard combinatorial optimisation problems. Our research combines expertise in reinforcement learning, computer vision, robotic control, sim2real transfer, large multimodal foundation models and neural combinatorial optimisation to build AI-based architectures and algorithms to improve robot autonomy and robustness when completing everyday complex tasks in constantly changing environments.
The research we conduct on expressive visual representations is applicable to visual search, object detection, image classification and the automatic extraction of 3D human poses and shapes that can be used for human behavior understanding and prediction, human-robot interaction or even avatar animation. We also extract 3D information from images that can be used for intelligent robot navigation, augmented reality and the 3D reconstruction of objects, buildings or even entire cities.
Our work covers the spectrum from unsupervised to supervised approaches, and from very deep architectures to very compact ones. We’re excited about the promise of big data to bring big performance gains to our algorithms but also passionate about the challenge of working in data-scarce and low-power scenarios.
Furthermore, we believe that a modern computer vision system needs to be able to continuously adapt itself to its environment and to improve itself via lifelong learning. Our driving goal is to use our research to deliver embodied intelligence to our users in robotics, autonomous driving, via phone cameras and any other visual means to reach people wherever they may be.
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