Postdoctoral Fellow, Thomas Thebaud, received the “Best Postdoctoral Poster” award at the Technology and Dementia pre-conference for the 2023 Alzheimer Association International Conference (AAIC) for his poster entitled, “Handwriting Characteristics Analysis for Alzheimer’s Disease and MCI Assessment”.  Dr. Thebaud is a fellow training under the supervision of Dr. Najim Dehak, Professor of Electrical and Computer […]

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Four billion people around the world speak languages not served by Siri, Alexa, or chatbots—to the detriment of global public health, human rights, and national security. Here’s how our experts are leveraging artificial intelligence to achieve digital equity for people the world over. In 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti. Relief workers poured in from around […]

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Mark Dredze, associate professor of computer science and Center for Language and Speech Processing faculty member, discusses BloombergGPT, the first large language model built specifically for the finance industry. First there was ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence model with a seemingly uncanny ability to mimic human language. Now there is the Bloomberg-created BloombergGPT, the first large language […]

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Get to know Daniel Khashabi, who joins Johns Hopkins as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP). Khashabi obtained a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSc from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Before joining Johns Hopkins, he was a postdoctoral […]

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This story originally appeared in the Hub. An engineer from the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing has developed a machine learning model that can distinguish functions of speech in transcripts of dialogues outputted by language understanding, or LU, systems in an approach that could eventually help computers “understand” spoken or written text in much […]

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