Events

Student Seminar – Keith Harrigian “The Problem of Semantic Shift in Longitudinal Monitoring of Social Media: A Case Study on Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

February 3, 2022
When: February 7, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: In Person or Virtual Option @ https://wse.zoom.us/j/96735183473, 234 Ames Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Social media allows researchers to track societal and cultural changes over time based on language analysis tools. Many of these tools rely on statistical algorithms which need to be tuned to specific types of[…]

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Mahsa Yarmohammadi (Johns Hopkins University) “Data Augmentation for Zero-shot Cross-Lingual Information Extraction”

February 1, 2022
When: February 4, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Ames 234 Presented Virtually via Zoom https://wse.zoom.us/j/96735183473

Abstract In this talk, I present a multipronged strategy for zero-shot cross-lingual Information Extraction, that is the construction of an IE model for some target language, given existing annotations exclusively in some other language. This[…]

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Tom McCoy (Johns Hopkins University) “Opening the Black Box of Deep Learning: Representations, Inductive Biases, and Robustness”

January 26, 2022
When: January 31, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Ames Hall 234, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Natural language processing has been revolutionized by neural networks, which perform impressively well in applications such as machine translation and question answering. Despite their success, neural networks still have some substantial shortcomings: Their internal[…]

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Emily Mower-Provost (University of Michigan) “Automatically Measuring Emotion from Speech: New Methods to Move from the Lab to the Real World”

November 16, 2021
When: December 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Maryland Hall 110, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Emotion has intrigued researchers for generations. This fascination has permeated the engineering community, motivating the development of affective computing methods. However, human emotion remains notoriously difficult to accurately detect. As a result, emotion classification[…]

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CLSP Student Seminar

November 16, 2021
When: November 15, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Maryland Hall 110, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

 

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Center for Language and Speech Processing