Events

John Hansen (University of Texas at Dallas) “Challenges and Advancements in Speaker Diarization & Recognition for Naturalistic Data Streams”

January 17, 2023
When: March 3, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Speech communications represents a core domain for education, team problem solving, social engagement, and business interactions. The ability for Speech Technology to extract layers of knowledge and assess engagement content represents the next generation[…]

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Saadia Gabriel (University of Washington) “Socially Responsible and Factual Reasoning for Equitable AI Systems”

January 17, 2023
When: February 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Understanding the implications underlying a text is critical to assessing its impact, in particular the social dynamics that may result from a reading of the text. This requires endowing artificial intelligence (AI) systems with[…]

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Wei Xu (Georgia Tech) “GPT-3 vs Humans: Rethinking Evaluation of Natural Language Generation”

January 17, 2023
When: February 24, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract While GPT models have shown impressive performance on summarization and open-ended text generation, it’s important to assess their abilities on more constrained text generation tasks that require significant and diverse rewritings. In this talk,[…]

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Hanjie Chen (University of Virginia) “Bridging Humans and Machines: Techniques for Trustworthy NLP”

January 17, 2023
When: March 13, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Advanced neural language models have grown ever larger and more complex, pushing forward the limits of language understanding and generation, while diminishing interpretability. The black-box nature of deep neural networks blocks humans from understanding[…]

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CLSP Student Seminar

January 17, 2023
When: February 13, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

 

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Mark Yatskar (University of Pennsylvania) “Understanding Dataset Biases: Behavioral Indicators During Annotation and Contrastive Mitigations”

January 17, 2023
When: February 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Biases in datasets, or unintentionally introduced spurious cues, are a common source of misspecification in machine learning. Performant models trained on such data can gender stereotype or be brittle under distribution shift.  In this[…]

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Sharon Levy (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Responsible AI via Responsible Large Language Models”

January 17, 2023
When: February 6, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract While large language models have advanced the state-of-the-art in natural language processing, these models are trained on large-scale datasets, which may include harmful information. Studies have shown that as a result, the models exhibit[…]

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