Deep Learning Meetup Recap: Applications in Travel, Advertising, NLP, Computer Vision, and Knowledge Graphs

Last month Ctrip Technology Center organized a deep‑learning meetup that brought together academic representatives from University College London, Fudan University, Southeast University, Nanjing University and technical experts from Ctrip, Huawei, Sogou, Jianshu and other leading companies to share the development and practical applications of deep learning across tourism, computational advertising, natural language processing, computer vision, and knowledge graph domains.

After the event, the editor will gradually release the speakers' presentations, PPTs and videos on Ctrip Technology’s WeChat public account, but many participants felt they didn’t get enough insight, so this summary post is provided to let you see everything at once.

Deep Learning Applications in Ctrip Travel Community

Li Jian, Director of Development for Ctrip’s Travel Community, is responsible for basic content and has experience in natural language processing and computer vision applications. He holds a master’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Advances in Deep Learning for Voice and Semantic Understanding at Noah

Liu Xiaohua, researcher at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, specializes in natural language processing and machine learning.

Reasoning Techniques in Knowledge Graphs and Their Application in College Entrance Exam Robots

Qi Guilin, professor at Southeast University, doctoral supervisor, ACM professional member, and CCF committee member, discusses inference technologies in knowledge graphs and their use in an exam‑robot system.

Deep Learning Model for Predicting User Online Advertising Click Behavior

Zhang Weinan, co‑founder and data scientist at Youlu Technology, earned his PhD from UCL in 2016, focusing on intelligent advertising algorithms; his work has been published five times at KDD and he has won top positions in global advertising competitions.

Deep Learning Applications in Sogou Wireless Search Advertising

Shu Peng, senior researcher at Sogou, graduated with a master’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2012 and now leads the strategy research for wireless search advertising, promoting DNN‑based models in production with notable success.

Question‑Answering System on Knowledge Base: Entities, Text, and System Perspectives

Cui Wanyun, PhD from Fudan University, has conducted QA research at MRSA, Baidu, and XiaoI Robot, publishing first‑author papers at IJCAI 2016, AAAI 2016, SIGMOD 2014, and SIGMOD 2013.

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