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Dear coleague,
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*: Emily M. Bender (University of Washington) * *Title*: Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology * *Date*: Nov 2, 2023, 16:00 CET * *Summary*: Humans make sense of language in context, bringing to bear their own understanding of the world including their model of their interlocutor's understanding of the world. In this talk, I will explore various potential risks that arise when we as humans bring this sense-making capacity to interactions with artificial interlocutors. That is, I will ask what happens in conversations where one party has no (or extremely limited) access to meaning and all of the interpretative work rests with the other, and briefly explore what this entails for the design of language technology. * *Bio*: Emily M. Bender is a Professor of Linguistics and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Information School at the University of Washington, where she has been on the faculty since 2003. Her research interests include multilingual grammar engineering, computational semantics, and the societal impacts of language technology. In 2022 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
* *Upcoming webinars: * Heng Ji (February 1, 2024) * Smaranda Muresan (March 7, 2024) * 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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Best wishes,
HiTZ Zentroa