Events

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[…]

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[…]

Student Seminar – Jonathan Chang

January 26, 2022

When: January 28, 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Where: Ames Hall 234, 3400 N. Charles Street

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[…]