Mind the Gap:
               Is Industry the missing piece of the puzzle?

                                             Miguel Martinez-Alvarez
                                                      Signal
                                          miguel.martinez@signal.uk.com




                       Abstract
    There has been an enormous increase in avail-
    able data in the last years. At the same
    time, and at least partially caused by it, novel
    and exciting lines of research have been pro-
    posed in different fields such as Information
    Retrieval, Machine Learning or Natural Lan-
    guage Processing. Nowadays, most organisa-
    tions and individuals understand that having
    access to large amounts of data, and being
    able to process it provides a competitive ad-
    vantage. Furthermore, this is only possible if
    “cutting the edge” research is combined with
    clear commercial goals.
    The academic landscape is organised as a set
    of almost disjoint niche areas, despite the fact
    that they share foundations, tools and meth-
    ods. On the other hand, a commercial appli-
    cation exploits any techniques that can add
    value. My talk would focus on the sugges-
    tion that by relying more on industrial col-
    laborations, multi-discipline projects will arise
    with the main implication that the gap be-
    tween communities will become smaller. I
    will support this claim within the context
    of a news personalisation product developed
    by SIGNAL that could have not been possi-
    ble without the combination of knowledge be-
    tween different fields.




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In: U. Kruschwitz, F. Hopfgartner and C. Gurrin (eds.): Pro-
ceedings of the MindTheGap’14 Workshop, Berlin, Germany,
4-March-2014, published at http://ceur-ws.org