OREANDA-NEWS. i-Free is set to co-host Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL) a desktop and applied conference devoted to computerized language processing. The conference will take place in St. Petersburg on May 17th and 18th 2013.

A company with a long-standing commitment to innovation i-Free is today one of Russia’s trailblazing developers of mobile innovative products. i-Free is the creator of the mobile apps ‘Everfriends’ and ‘Assistant in Russian’ which both use the artificial intelligence platform that won the Grand Prix at the high-profile international competition Turing-100. 

Taking its applied artificial intelligence development further i-Free sponsored Russia’s Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL) conference in St. Petersburg last year. AINL’2012 was attended by over 200 professionals representing the business community, developers of commercial products built on voice/language recognition technology, researchers and experts in applied artificial intelligence, and graduate/postgraduate students from some of Russia’s best universities.

This year i-Free will go a step further not only sponsoring but co-hosting Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL’2013) in partnership with NLPseminar and Game Changers.  

“Artificial intelligence is critical to the products we develop,” said Kirill Petrov, Managing Director of i-Free Innovations, commenting on i-Free’s role in organizing AINL this year. “Our app ‘Assistant in Russian’ quickly and accurately recognizes verbal queries in Russian and gives the right answers. Our ‘is good for the industry leading to new, amazing products which millions of people in all parts of the world Everfriends’ family of mobile apps is also closely linked to artificial intelligence. We have a vested interest in fostering communication, exchanging ideas, and business networking between AI professionals. This will want to have.” 

AINL will consist of three sections this year – verbal reports, posters and demos. The conference will focus on Voice Technology, Voice Recognition and Synthesis, Ontology and Linked Data, Text Mining – Data Extraction from Structured and Textual Sources, Linguistic Technology and Dialogue Agents.

As the conference program approaches its final shape the Organizing Committee asks speakers and participants in the Poster and Demo Sections to sign up before 2nd April.

In the AINL’2013 Poster Section graduate/postgraduate students, research teams and artificial intelligence developers are welcome to showcase their desktop or applied projects which are a work-in-progress. 

The Demo Section is reserved for developers whose AI applications have already found practical use.