Predicting suicide risk by understanding language usage is exactly what Glen Coppersmith–data scientist, psychologist, and CLSP affiliate–has set out to do, reports Mashable.
“A momentous change in health care is under way,” says Suchi Saria, an assistant professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. Fast Company reports five ways that machine learning is poised to bring new rigor to medicine.
Social media users who share conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading.
KITT.AI, a startup co-founded by Xuchen Yao and Guoguo Chen, has unveiled a software toolkit that will allow developers to add verbal “hotword detection” to devices.
Recent research published in Vaccine revealed a key factor in making articles about vaccines go viral, ScienceDaily reports. Mark Dredze served as a technical lead for the study.
Health awareness days are ubiquitous. But does dedicating a day to a serious disease or to healthy living habits actually make a difference?
Vimal Manohar and Chunxi Liu, CLSP students and PhD candidates in the research lab of Dr. Sanjeev Khudanpur, were recipients of the Speech and Language Processing Student Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2016.
