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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*: Xiang Ren (University of Southern California - USC) * *Title*: Commonsense Reasoning in the Wild * *Date*: October 6, 2022, 17:00 CET * *Summary*: Current NLP systems impress us by achieving close-to-human performance on benchmarks of answering commonsense questions or writing interesting stories. However, most of the progress is evaluated using static, closed-ended datasets created for individual tasks. To deploy commonsense reasoning services in the wild, we look to develop and evaluate systems that can generate answers in an open-ended way, perform robust logical reasoning, and generalize across diverse task formats, domains, and datasets. In this talk I will share our effort on introducing new formulations of commonsense reasoning challenges and novel evaluation protocols, towards broadening the scope in approaching machine common sense. We hope that such a shift of evaluation paradigm would encourage more research on externalizing the model reasoning process and improving model robustness and cross-task generalization. * *Upcoming webinars*: o Incorporating Commonsense Reasoning into NLP Models -- Vered Shwartz (November 3, 2022) o Title to be announced -- Maarit Koponen (December 1, 2022)

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