Speaker: Jaeho Choi, Naver Corp.
Abstract
Since the Internet and mobile devices appeared, search and recommendation have become an indispensable part of our lives. Traditionally, IR (information retrieval) stands for the task of finding relevant ducuments from a set of information consisting of text when given a query. Nowadays, the search users have changed it into a task that analyzes and combines informative signals based on AI and finds the correct answer at once. Atypical input through the camera lens of the smartphone and the microphone of the smart speaker is a challenge for Clova AI to understand the intent of search, which is unlike the inquiry of the text input mainly dealt by the conventional search engines. In addition, AI recommendation is always there with us - from the headline news every morning, music playlists on your devices, restaurants for a decent lunch, TV shows and movies you may like and so on.
As in the case of search, our daily life can be more convenient through AI recommendation which understands our preferences and lifestyle patterns and finds the information we want.
To this end, Naver AiRS (Ai Recommender System) offers a variety of personalized news, blog posts, webtoon, and video content recommendations for tens of millions of people every day. The ultimate goal of Clova AI, Search and AiRS is "The AI-Driven Life" that makes daily life easier through AI.
Short bio
Jaeho Choi is the leader of AiRS (Ai Recommender System) at the Search Department of Naver Corp. in South Korea. He graduated Seoul National University and joined Naver, as a software engineer in 2003. He was supervised by W. Bruce Croft, a distinguished professor of UMASS Amherst from 2011 to 2012, when he earned his master degree. In 2013, he returned to Naver and led a personalized recommendation project based on mobile search behavior as in Google Now. In 2016-17, his team launched AiRS News, AI-based personalized news recommendation service and spread AI content curation for Naver portal site. In 2018, LINE Today adapted AiRS and launched For You recommendation in Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong-Kong. Recently, his team is working on personalization for LINE News in Japan.