Category: NLP
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Prof. Matuszek receives prestigious NSF CAREER award for robotics research
CSEE professor Cynthia Matuszek received a presigeous NSF CAREER award to support her research on improving the ability of robots to interact with people in everyday environments. The five-year award provides nearly $550,000 to support research by Dr. Matuszek and her students in the Interactive Robotics and Language lab.
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talk: Interactive Natural Language Processing, 12-1 Wed. 2/23
Prof. Hal Daume describes how systems that help real-world users with tasks need to be able to communicate bi-directionally with people.
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talk: Human-in-the-Loop Entity Mining from Noisy Web Data, 1-2 4/6
Human-in-the-Loop Entity Mining from Noisy Web Data Professor Eduard Dragut, Temple University 1-2 pm, Tuesday, 6 April 2021online via WebEx Recognizing entities that follow or closely resemble a regular expression (regex) pattern is an important task in information extraction. Due to a vast diversity of web documents and ways in which they are generated, even seemingly…
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talk: Mining social media data for health, public health & popular events, 1-2pm ET 4/2
Mining social media data for health, public health, and popular events Anietie Andy, University of Pennsylvania 1:00-2:00 pm ET, Friday, 2 April 2021 online via WebEx Increasingly, individuals are turning to social media and online forums such as Twitter and Reddit to communicate about a range of issues including their health and well-being, public health concerns,…
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New NSF grant to improve human-robot interaction
Drs. Matuszek, Ferraro and WInder received an NSF award for research on semi-supervised deep learning for domain adaptation in robotic language acquisition.
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Meet Your Professor: Dr. Frank Ferraro, 12-1 Mon 3/25, ITE 239
Prof. Ferraro’s teaching and research areas include AI, language understanding and machine learning Meet Your Professor: Dr. Frank Ferraro Find out about Machine Learning and NLP classes 2:00-1:00 Monday, 25 March 2019, ITE 239 Next Monday, March 25th, join the Computer Science Education Club for its second installment of the “Meet Your Professor” Spring 2019…
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Maryland Data Science Conference, 1/14 CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
MD Data Science Conference Monday, 14 January, UMBC Canceled due to Weather Miner & Kasch has decided to cancel the conference tomorrow due to the snow storm and reschedule it. “While around UMBC the snow seems to be letting up, we have several speakers and attendees from other areas that have raised concerns about…
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MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library
MD-AI Meetup holds 1st event at UMBC 6-8pm Wed 10/3, 7th floor library A new Maryland-based meetup interest group has been established for Artificial Intelligence (MD-AI Meetup) and will have its first meeting at UMBC this coming Wednesday (Oct 3) from 6:00-8:00pm in the 7th floor of the library. The first meeting will feature…
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Prof. Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch
Cynthia Matuszek named one of AI’s 10 to Watch UMBC CSEE Professor Cynthia Matuszek was named as one AI’s 10 to Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems. The designation is given every two years to a group of “10 young stars who have demonstrated outstanding AI achievements”. IEEE Intelligent Systems accepts nominations from around the world, which…
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🤖 talk: Where’s my Robot Butler? 1-2pm Friday 4/13, ITE 231
UMBC ACM Student Chapter Talk Where’s my Robot Butler? Robotics, NLP and Robots in Human Environments Professor Cynthia Matuszek, UMBC 1:00-2:00pm Friday, 13 April 2018, ITE 231, UMBC As robots become more powerful, capable, and autonomous, they are moving from controlled industrial settings to human-centric spaces such as medical environments, workplaces, and homes. As physical…