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[Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation: Grant No. 1048406]\n

The purpose of the group is to discuss issues in large datasets, language and speech processing. We are hoping to bring our cross-disciplinary strengths to these areas, to share ideas, to discuss the current state of the art, and to collaborate on research topics.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Upcoming Brown Bag Talks<\/h2>\n

Monday, October 27, 4-5pm
\n<\/strong>Natalia Zawadzka-Paluektau, PhD –\u00a0Polish Academy of Sciences
\nGendered violence in European media reporting on crisis migration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Check back soon for more events!<\/p>\n

Past Events<\/h2>\n

<\/a>Wednesday, September 24, 5-6pm<\/strong>
\nTony Berber Sardinha, PhD Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo
\nMarilisa Shimazumi, PhD Cultura Inglesa College & S\u00e3o Paulo Technical College
\nWhat happens when machines teach class and write teaching materials? A corpus-based exploration<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, April 7 at 5:30pm<\/strong>
\nErik Voss, PhD Columbia University
\nCan AI write an academic abstract for me?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Tuesday, November 21, 2024, 3:30 PM<\/strong>
\nDr. Sharon Levy, PhD Rutgers University
\n<\/strong>Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tuesday, April 9th, 4-5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nAiofe Cahill, PhD, Director of AI Research at Dataminr<\/span>
\nAI for Good at Dataminr<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 5th, 4-5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nAnne Therese Frederiksen, PhD, Assistant Professor in Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders at Brooklyn College \u2013 CUNY
\nWhat good is a native norm when it mostly doesn\u2019t apply? Assessing the consequences of language deprivation on narratives in American Sign Language<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 14th, 4-5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nTal Linzen, PhD, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at NYU, Research Scientist at Google
\nHow much data do neural networks need for syntactic generalization?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, December 4, 1-2 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMike Kalfus, GrapheneAI, Chief Commercial Officer
\nArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare Analytics: What is it good for? Absolute Everything….Say It Again!<\/a><\/p>\n

Monday, November 13, 1-4pm<\/strong>
\nAnastassia Loukina, PhD, Engineering Manager, Grammarly
\n“How do we evaluate AI systems in real-world applications?”<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 19, 4:00<\/strong> – 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nNick Williams, Instructional Specialist, Montclair State University
\nWhy Documenting Languages (still) Matters and How to Do It<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 28, 4:00 – 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nAdam Jardine, Associate Professor, Rutgers University
\nWhy Computational Learning Theory Matters for Language Learning<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, May 4,\u00a0<\/strong>3:45 – 5:00pm<\/strong>
\nComputational Lingustics students, Educational Testing Service
\nEducational Testing Service (ETS) Internship Presentations<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday, March 16th, 2023 <\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Liubou Shefarevich, Second Language Testing Inc., a Berlitz company
\nApplying coursework in linguistics to an obscure field of language assessment, or what you can do with your linguistics degree<\/a><\/p>\n

Thursday February 23, 2023<\/strong>
\n4:00PM – 5:00PM Zoom<\/a><\/strong>
\nDr. Michael Flor, Educational Testing Service
\nAIG for Idioms: Towards testing knowledge of English idiomatic expressions with automatic item generation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday November 23, 2021<\/strong>
\n1:00PM – 2:00PM Zoom<\/a><\/strong>
\nAndrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo<\/strong>
\nGrammatical Profiling for Semantic Change Detection<\/a><\/p>\n

Tuesday October 26th, 2021<\/strong>
\n4:00PM – 5:00PM Zoom<\/a><\/strong>
\nAnjalie Field, Carnegie Mellon University\/University of Washington<\/strong>
\nDistantly-supervised Language Technologies for Social Text Analysis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 5, 2021<\/strong>
\n3:30 – 4:30PM Zoom<\/a><\/strong>
\nVictor Kuperman, McMaster University<\/strong>
\nWhat makes us proficient readers in a second language: new eye-tracking corpora<\/a><\/p>\n

April 6, 2021
\n4:15 – 5:15PM, Zoom
\nDr. Xiao Yang, Language Data Researcher, Amazon Alexa
\nLinguistics Careers in Tech: What are they and how to prepare for tech job hunting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 10, 2021
\nGary Lupyan, Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
\nLearning from Language: How vocabulary helps to structure the mind<\/a><\/strong>
\nWatch a recording of Gary Lupyan’s March 10 discussion<\/a><\/p>\n

November 17, 2020<\/strong>
\nXiaofei Lu, Department of Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University<\/strong>
\nSense-aware Lexical Sophistication Indicies and Their Relationship to L2 Writing Quality<\/a><\/p>\n

February 20, 2020<\/strong>
\nSara Rosenthal, IBM<\/strong>
\nNLP for Healthcare in Electronic Health Records and Care Management Notes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

November 14, 2019<\/strong>
\nDr. Gerard de Melo, Rutgers University<\/strong>
\nDigging Deeper : Representations for Fine-Grained Affective Text Analysis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

November 7, 2019<\/strong>
\nZubin Jelveh, Ph.D., <\/strong>Crime Lab New York<\/strong>
\nPolitical Language in Economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

April 11, 2019<\/strong>
\nChelsey Hill, Assistant Professor of Information Management and Business Analytics, Feliciano School of Business<\/strong>
\nBrown Bag Talk: Complaint Mining in the Automotive Industry<\/a><\/p>\n

March 27, 2019<\/strong>
\nRichard Sproat, Research Scientist, Google Research, New York<\/strong>
\nNeural Models of Text Normalization for Speech Applications<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

March 7, 2019<\/strong>
\nHeng Ji, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/strong>
\nUniversal Information Extraction <\/a><\/p>\n

February 13, 2019<\/strong>
\nJoe Tetreault, Grammarly<\/strong>
\nIt’s a Matter of Style: Experiments in Style Detection and Transformation with Natural Language Processing <\/a><\/p>\n

View more past Brown Bag Talks here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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