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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). 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: *Dan Roth* (University of Pennsylvania)
* Title: It’s Time to Reason
* Date: *April 7, 2022, 15:00 CET*
* Summary: The fundamental issue underlying natural language
understanding is that of semantics – there is a need to move toward
understanding natural language at an appropriate level of
abstraction in order to support natural language understanding and
communication with computers. Machine Learning has become ubiquitous
in our attempt to induce semantic representations of natural
language and support decisions that depend on it; however, while we
have made significant progress over the last few years, it has
focused on classification tasks for which we have large amounts of
annotated data. Supporting high level decisions that depend on
natural language understanding is still beyond our capabilities,
partly since most of these tasks are very sparse and generating
supervision signals for it does not scale. I will discuss some of
the challenges underlying reasoning – making natural language
understanding decisions that depend on multiple, interdependent,
models, and exemplify it mostly using the domain of Reasoning about
Time, as it is expressed in natural language.
* Bio: Dan Roth is the Eduardo D. Glandt Distinguished Professor at
the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of
Pennsylvania, lead of NLP Science at Amazon AWS AI, and a Fellow of
the AAAS, the ACM, AAAI, and the ACL. In 2017, Roth was awarded the
John McCarthy Award, the highest award the AI community gives to
mid-career AI researchers. Roth was recognized “for major conceptual
and theoretical advances in the modeling of natural language
understanding, machine learning, and reasoning.” Roth has published
broadly in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge
representation and reasoning, and learning theory, and has developed
advanced machine learning based tools for natural language
applications that are being used widely. Roth was the
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
(JAIR) and a program chair of AAAI, ACL, and CoNLL. Roth has been
involved in several startups; most recently he was a co-founder and
chief scientist of NexLP, a startup that leverages the latest
advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Cognitive Analytics,
and Machine Learning in the legal and compliance domains. NexLP was
acquired by Reveal in 2020. Prof. Roth received his B.A Summa cum
laude in Mathematics from the Technion, Israel, and his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Harvard University in 1995.
Upcoming webinars:
* Sakriani Sakti: Semi-supervised Learning for Low-resource
Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Processing with Machine Speech
Chain (May 5)
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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Best wishes,
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