Event

ArtIAMAS Seminar Series: Interactive Natural Language Processing

Wednesday, February 23, 2022
12:00 p.m.
Online seminar
Anna Picard
301 405 4358
appicard@umd.edu

ArtIAMAS Seminar Series 

[Co-organized by UMBC, UMCP and Army Research Lab] 

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 @ 12 noon ET 

https://umbc.webex.com/meet/nroy

Interactive Natural Language Processing 

Hal Daume

Department of Computer Science

University of Maryland at College Park

Abstract: To achieve the goal of building natural language processing systems that help real-world users with tasks, such systems need to be able to communicate bidirectionally with their users. This includes systems describing and explaining their solutions and their difficulties. This also involves systems that can learn from a wide variety of feedback -- including language -- that a user may provide. I'll describe our past and ongoing work in this space, and how it ties in to our current ArtIAMAS project on systems to help triage documents efficiently and effectively.

Biography: Dr. Hal Daumé III is a Perotto Professor in Computer Science and Language Science at the University of Maryland, College Park; he has a joint appointment as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New York City. His primary research interest is in developing new learning algorithms for prototypical problems that arise in the context of natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a focus on interactive learning and understanding and minimizing social harms that can be caused or exacerbated by computational systems.