A paper by Center for Language and Speech Processing assistant research scientist Piotr Żelasko was featured in the September edition of an Association for Computational Linguistics’ newsletter that shares recent developments in computational typology and multilingual natural language processing. “The paper’s inclusion says that the contribution is interesting to the broader community of speech and […]
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The threats of the COVID-19 pandemic do not end with viral infection. As public health researchers with a focus on gun violence, we are particularly concerned about increased risks of gun suicide, unintentional shootings and domestic violence shootings during these challenging times. Yet most government data on gun violence, another public health crisis, is available […]
Computer Science professor Jason Eisner has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics for “significant contributions to probabilistic models and algorithms for finding linguistic structure, especially lexicalized syntax and morphology.” Established in 2011, the ACL Fellows program recognizes members whose “contributions to the field have been most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical […]
Mark Dredze, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been appointed as a John C. Malone Associate Professor. The John C. Malone Associate Professorship was endowed through the generosity of John C. Malone ’64, ’69 to support outstanding Whiting School faculty members within the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare. Mark develops new methods […]
Three CLSP students took home the award for Best Student Paper at this year’s Interspeech conference. The paper, Multi-Modal Data Augmentation for End-to-End ASR, was written by Adithya Renduchintala, Shuoyang Ding, Matthew Wiesner, and associate research professor, Shinji Watanabe. Interspeech is the world’s largest conference on the science and technology of spoken language technology. This year’s conference […]
The Los Angeles Times reports on recently published findings that a large percentage of tweets devoted to the vaccination issue have been from bots or Russian trolls. Mark Dredze, the John C. Malone Associate Professor of Computer Science and one of the paper’s co-authors, is quoted in the article. Read more at Los Angeles Times […]
With the publication of the research study Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate, in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), the conversation about the influence Russian trolls have over the political and social discourse in this country once again made front-page news. Researchers studied tweets related to vaccinations during the […]
