Student Seminar – Desh Raj
March 13, 2023
When:
March 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Events
Alessandra Cervone (Amazon) “Controllable Text Generation for Creative Applications
March 13, 2023
When:
March 17, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Abstract Recent advances in large pretrained language models have unlocked new exciting applications for Natural Language Generation for creative tasks, such as lyrics or humour generation. In this talk we will discuss recent works by[…]
Denise DiPersio (Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania) “Data and Ethics: Where Does the Twain Meet?”
February 27, 2023
When:
March 10, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street
Abstract As data-based technologies proliferate, it is increasingly important for researchers to be aware of their work’s wider impact. Concerns like navigating the IRB and figuring out copyright and licensing issues are still key, but[…]
CLSP Student Seminar – Qinwan Rabbani “Towards Enabling Flexible Communication via an Intracranial Brain-Computer Interface”
February 17, 2023
When:
February 20, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where:
Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street
Abstract In this talk, I will outline the unique application of speech technologies to brain signals collected from the cortical surface of clinical human subjects speaking isolated utterances, which are to be decoded in real[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
