Events

Sasha Rush (Cornell University) “Pretraining Without Attention”

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

Abstract Transformers are essential to pretraining. As we approach 5 years of BERT, the connection between attention as architecture and transfer learning remains key to this central thread in NLP. Other architectures such as CNNs and RNNs[…]

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Daniel Fried (CMU)

January 17, 2023
When: January 30, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

 

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CLSP Student Seminar

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

 

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CLSP Student Seminar – Kelly Marchisio – “Efficient Multilingual NLP”

January 17, 2023
When: January 23, 2023 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Kelly’s research spans three broad directions in multilingual NLP and representation learning: (1) diagnosing and fixing failure modes in translation technologies (2) data-efficient and low-resource NLP, and (3) compute-efficient NLP. This talk is an[…]

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Student Seminar

September 29, 2022
When: October 3, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

 

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Mark Hasegawa-Johnson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) “Zipf’s Law Suggests a Three-Pronged Approach to Inclusive Speech Recognition”

September 15, 2022
When: December 9, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Zipf’s law is commonly glossed by the aphorism “infrequent words are frequent,” but in practice, it has often meant that there are three types of words: frequent, infrequent, and out-of-vocabulary (OOV). Speech recognition solved[…]

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