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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). You can check the videos of
previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here:
http://www.hitz.eus/webinars
Next webinar:
Speaker: Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University)
Title: Human-centric NLP: From Argumentation to Creativity
Date: March 7, 2024 - 15:00 CET
Summary: Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) constitute a
paradigm shift in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its applications
across all domains. Models such as ChatGPT seem to possess human-like
abilities --- reasoning about problems, passing bar exams, writing
stories. But do they? In trying to answer this question, I will discuss
three main desiderata for building human-centric NLP systems:
knowledge-aware models, human-AI collaboration frameworks, and
theoretically-grounded evaluation protocols. In this talk, I will use
argumentation and creativity as two case studies. I will cover
knowledge-aware models for implicit premise generation, human-AI
collaboration framework for high-quality datasets creation (e.g., visual
metaphors) and helping human solve tasks (e.g., writing short stories),
and last but not least a novel evaluation protocol for assessing the
creative capabilities of LLMs in both producing as well as assessing
creative text.
Bio: Smaranda Muresan is a Research Scientist at the Data Science
Institute at Columbia University, a Visiting Associate Professor at
Barnard College and an Amazon Scholar. Her research focuses on
human-centric Natural Language Processing for social good and
responsible computing. She develops theory-guided and knowledge-aware
computational models for understanding and generating language in
context (e.g., visual, social, multilingual, multicultural) with
applications to computational social science, education, and public
health. Research topics that she worked on over the years include:
argument mining and generation, fact-checking and misinformation
detection, figurative language understanding and generation (e.g.,
sarcasm, metaphor, idioms), and multilingual language processing for
low-resource and endangered languages. Recently, her research interests
include explainable models and human-AI collaboration frameworks for
high-quality datasets creation. She received best papers awards at
SIGDIAL 2017 and ACL 2018 (short paper). She served as a board member
for the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics
Upcoming webinars:
Ralf Schlüter (May 2, 2024)
Marco Baroni (June 6, 2024)
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:
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Best wishes,
HiTZ Zentroa
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webinars.
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