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SUMMARY:Linguistic Yardsticks: Evaluating Language Technology Using Insigh
 ts from Linguistic Theory - Laura Rimell (DeepMind)
DTSTART:20171121T164500Z
DTEND:20171121T171500Z
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CONTACT:Guy Edward Toh Emerson
DESCRIPTION:Language technology has achieved remarkable success on practic
 al tasks\, such as machine translation and sentiment analysis\, while inco
 rporating very little theoretical linguistic knowledge. However\, the appe
 arance of success may be deceiving\, because standard evaluation metrics f
 or language technology under-represent relatively rare but linguistically 
 interesting phenomena. Poor performance in these areas will be increasingl
 y noticeable as technology advances and users expect more human-like behav
 iour. I will describe work that evaluates language technology using lingui
 stic yardsticks: datasets designed to focus on specific phenomena\, such a
 s the semantic understanding of relative clauses\, and I will consider how
  they may point the way toward improvements in natural language processing
 .
LOCATION:Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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