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SUMMARY:NLP\, the perfect social (media) science? - Dirk Hovy\, University
  of Copenhagen
DTSTART:20170607T110000Z
DTEND:20170607T120000Z
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CONTACT:Amandla Mabona
DESCRIPTION:Language is the ultimate social medium: We don't just communic
 ate to convey information\, but also to entertain\, to gossip\, to console
 \, and much more. Social media is one of the purest expressions of all of 
 these aspects of language\, and often includes additional information abou
 t the place\, time\, and author of a message.\nThis combination has allowe
 d NLP to work on real\, situated\, individual language\, rather than on ab
 stract general corpora\, and lead it into areas that were previously the s
 ole domain of social sciences. These areas open up a wide range of excitin
 g new applications\, but also presents a host of new challenges - technica
 lly\, linguistically\, and morally.\nIn this talk\, I will illustrate both
  opportunities and challenges with some of my ongoing research\, and end w
 ith a number of open questions that I believe will guide NLP for the years
  to come.\n\nBio:\nDirk Hovy is an associate professor in NLP at the compu
 ter science department of the University of Copenhagen. His research focus
 es on computational sociolinguistics\, the interaction of extra-linguistic
  factors\, language use\, and statistical models\, and its consequences fo
 r personalization. He is also interested in ethical questions of model bia
 s and algorithmic fairness.\nDirk received his PhD in Computer Science fro
 m the University of Southern California\, and holds an MA in sociolinguist
 ics from the University of Marburg\, Germany. Dirk has authored multiple p
 apers on a variety of NLP topics\, and shared best paper awards at EACL 20
 14\, *SEM 2014\, and WNUT 2015.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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