Visita y charlas del Profesor Horacio Saggion de UPF - Barcelona

Visita y charlas del Profesor Horacio Saggion de UPF - Barcelona

de Lorena Etcheverry -
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Reenvio información sobre charlas que se realizarán la semana que viene, organizadas por el grupo PLN del InCo

saludos,

Lorena

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Estimados,

La semana que viene nos estará visitando el Prof. Horacio Saggion, chair de computer science e inteligencia artificial en TALN-DTIC de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Horacio es un investigador que trabaja en Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural desde hace muchos años, y va a dar dos charlas sobre temas de PLN muy pujantes. Es un placer para nosotros invitarlos a las siguientes charlas:

- Lunes 18/9 a las 18:00 en el salón 701: "An Introduction to Natural Language Processing for Sign Language Processing in the SignON Project".

Abstract: The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has considerably advanced in recent years thanks to a paradigmatic shift caused by the availability of massive amounts of text, deep learning models and powerful computational resources. NLP technology is currently available for many domains and languages, notably translation between spoken languages has considerably evolved. However, where Sign Languages (SLs) are of concern it is fair to say that NLP is in its infancy. There are many reasons for the current situation due to the specific characteristics of  SLs and to the lesser availability of resources for most SLs.  The field of SL processing has long been the concern of computer vision research: tasks such as sign language detection, sign language identification, sign language segmentation have all been addressed within a computer vision paradigm. However, given that SLs are natural languages, a multi-disciplinary approach which includes linguistics and computational linguistics research in addition to computer vision should be considered in this area.  In this talk I will provide an overview of problems and methods used in Sign Language Processing with a focus on NLP.

- Miércoles 20/9 a las 18:00 en el salón 701: "Natural Language Processing for Accessible Information: Simplifying Words in Context and Beyond."

Abstract: Text is by far the most ubiquitous source of knowledge and information and should be made easily accessible to as many people as possible; however, texts often contain complex words that hinder reading comprehension and accessibility. Therefore, suggesting simpler alternatives for complex words without compromising meaning would help convey the information to a broader audience. In this talk I will cover current efforts from our Laboratory to address multilingual lexical simplification. I will describe a new approach we are investigating to make lexical simplification more “controllable” and report our latest findings.

Están todos invitados.

Saludos,
Luis