28
Jan
Lecture at MaiNLP Lab • 28.01.2025 • LMU Munich, Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room A 140
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Beyond Translation: Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication
Marine Carpuat, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
How can we develop NLP technology to effectively support cross-lingual communication, especially given recent progress in machine translation and multilingual language models? In this talk, I will present two main threads of work that aim to broaden the scope of machine translation to more directly support people’s needs. In the first thread, I’ll …
29
Jan
Lecture at MaiNLP Lab • 29.01.2025 • LMU Munich, Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room M 105
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
AI Interacting With People (Through Language)
Hal Daumé III, Professor, University of Maryland
I’ll discuss three projects related to understanding how people and AI-infused systems can and should interact. In the first, I’ll discuss AI communicating to people, in a shared environment, and how we can use highlighting and possible alternatives as a way to combat confabulations (aka hallucinations). In the second, I’ll discuss people …
29
Jan
Colloquium • 29.01.2025 • LMU Department of Statistics and via zoom
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A Novel Statistical Approach to Analyze Image Classification
Sophie Langer, University of Twente
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel in image recognition, showcasing remarkable performance in face recognition, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving. However, their reliability remains a concern due to the lack of robust theoretical foundations. Establishing a solid statistical framework is essential before we can fully analyse CNNs …