Dear colleague,
We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology
webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for
Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one seminar
every month. You can check the videos of previous webinars and the
schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next
webinar:
* *Speaker*: Vered Shwartz (The University of British Columbia-Vancouver)
* *Title*: Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP Models
* *Date*: November 3, 2022, 15:30 CET
* *Summary*: NLP models are primarily supervised, and are by design
trained on a sample of the situations they may encounter in
practice. The ability of models to generalize to and address unknown
situations reasonably is limited, but may be improved by endowing
models with commonsense knowledge and reasoning skills. In this
talk, I will present several lines of work in which commonsense is
used for improving the performance of NLP tasks: for completing
missing knowledge in underspecified language, interpreting
figurative language, and resolving context-sensitive event
coreference. Finally, I will discuss open problems and future
directions in building NLP models with commonsense reasoning abilities.
* *Bio*:Vered Shwartz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at
the University of British Columbia and a faculty member at the
Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests
include commonsense reasoning, computational semantics and
pragmatics, and multiword expressions. Previously, Vered was a
postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the
University of Washington, and received her PhD in Computer Science
from Bar-Ilan University.
* *Upcoming webinars*:
o Machine translation as a tool for multilingual information:
different users and use scenarios -- Maarit Koponen (December 1,
2022)
Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url:
http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating,
please complete this registration form:
http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea
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following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead:
http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info
Best wishes,
HiTZ Zentroa
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