Lidia Pivovarova will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Classification and clustering in media monitoring: from knowledge engineering to deep learning” in the Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, on 21 December 2018 at 12:00. The public examination will take place at the following address: Auditorium D122, Exactum building, Pietari Kalmin katu 5.

Professor Heng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, will serve as the opponent, and Professor Jyrki Kivinen as the custos.

The dissertation is also available in electronic form through the E-thesis service.