Center for Language and Speech Processing

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Becky Passonneau (Penn State University) ” Automated Support to Scaffold Students’ Short- and Long-form STEM Writing”

April 10, 2023
When: April 28, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Automated analysis of student writing has the potential to provide alternatives to selected-response questions such as multiple choice, and to enable teachers and instructors to assess students’ reasoning skills based on their long-form writing.[…]

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Karthik Narasimhan (Princeton University) ” Towards General-Purpose Language-Enabled Agents: Machines that can Read, Think and Act”

April 4, 2023
When: April 21, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have ushered in exciting capabilities in language understanding and text generation, with systems like ChatGPT holding fluent dialogs with users and being almost indistinguishable from humans. While this has obviously[…]

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Larry Heck (Georgia Institute of Technology) “The AVA Digital Human: Improving Conversational Interactions through Visually Situated Context”

April 4, 2023
When: April 14, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Advances in open domain Large Language Models (LLMs) starting with BERT and more recently with GPT-4, PaLM, and LLaMA have facilitated dramatic improvements in conversational systems. These improvements include an unprecedented breadth of conversational[…]

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