Events

Rachel Rudinger (University of Maryland, College Park) “Not So Fast!: Revisiting Assumptions in (and about) Natural Language Reasoning”

September 15, 2022
When: September 16, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Hackerman Hall B17, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract In recent years, the field of Natural Language Processing has seen a profusion of tasks, datasets, and systems that facilitate reasoning about real-world situations through language (e.g., RTE, MNLI, COMET). Such systems might, for[…]

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Kyle Gorman (City University of New York) ” Weighted Finite-State Transducers: The Later Years”

February 28, 2022
When: April 1, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Ames Hall 234, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract While the “deep learning tsunami” continues to define the state of the art in speech and language processing, finite-state transducer grammars developed by linguists and engineers are still widely used in industrial, highly-multilingual settings,[…]

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Student Seminar – Sonal Joshi “Classify and Detect Adversarial Attacks Against Speaker and Speech Recognition Systems”

February 28, 2022
When: March 4, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Where: Ames Hall 234, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Abstract Adversarial attacks deceive neural network systems by adding carefully crafted perturbations to benign signals. Being almost imperceptible to humans, these attacks pose a severe security threat to the state-of-the-art speech and speaker recognition systems, making[…]

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