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SUMMARY:Languages\, Values\, &amp\; Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture i
 n LLMs - Prof. Anne Lauscher\, Hamburg
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CONTACT:Shun Shao
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nStriving towards globally-inclusive models\, much
  effort has been spent on increasing the multilingual capabilities of lang
 uage technology. However\, even large language models still cover major la
 nguages only\, and knowledge on the effects of their language capabilities
  in integrated scenarios (e.g.\, in vision-language models) is rather rare
 . Additionally\, research on multilingual natural language processing has 
 for long ignored other aspects relevant to global inclusion that transcend
  the surface level-form of languages (e.g.\, cultural values). In this tal
 k\, I will present some of our works showcasing these issues — towards a
  joint discussion (with you\, hopefully) on globally-inclusive language te
 chnologies.\n\nBio:\nAnne Lauscher is Professor of Data Science at the Uni
 versity of Hamburg\, where her research group investigates Artificial Inte
 lligence (AI) systems with a focus on fair\, inclusive\, and sustainable c
 ommunication. The professorship is funded by the Excellence Initiative of 
 the German federation and the federal states. Before\, she was a Postdocto
 ral Researcher in the Natural Language Processing group at Bocconi Univers
 ity (Milan\, Italy) where she was working on introducing demographic facto
 rs into language processing systems with the aim of improving algorithmic 
 performance and system fairness. She obtained her Ph.D.\, awarded with the
  highest honors (summa cum laude)\, from the Data and Web Science group at
  the University of Mannheim (Germany)\, where her research focused on the 
 interplay between language representations and computational argumentation
 . During her studies\, she conducted research internships at and became an
  independent research contractor for Grammarly Inc. (New York City\, U.S.)
  and for the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Seattle\, U.S.).
  Her research gets regularly published at international top-tier Natural L
 anguage Processing (e.g.\, ACL\, EMNLP\, etc.) and Artificial Intelligence
  (e.g.\, AAAI) venues and has been recognized with multiple awards. For in
 stance\, in 2021\, Anne received the Maria Gräfin von Linden-Award in lif
 e sciences/ STEM\, which honors outstanding female researchers in the Germ
 an State of Baden-Württemberg.
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