Long before computers or electricity, humans used stories to communicate. But with the rise of artificial intelligence and the proliferation of tools like ChatGPT that harness AI to generate text, it's easy to worry about the future of storytelling.
Carnegie Mellon University's Maarten Sap isn't worried. Instead, he's flipping the concern on its head by using computers and AI to learn more about how humans tell stories and applying the results to helping humans communicate better... Read More
LTI Professor Yiming Yang has been inducted into the 2023 class of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Academy, it was announced this week. The Academy, inaugurated in 2021, was established by SIGIR to "honor and recognize individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval (IR)," and emphasizes research impact, innovations and service, and influence on the work of others.
Yang, an LTI... Read More
For seven weeks this fall, 15 students from the arts and sciences gathered in the basement of Hunt Library constructing robotic looms they used to weave fabrics of their own design during Recrafting Soft Technologies, a new minicourse offered through the School of Computer Science and the Carnegie Mellon University's Integrative Design, Arts and Technology (IDeATe) initiative.
The course used an arts-based approach to teach introductory concepts in computer... Read More
A researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology who has pioneered speech translation technologies dove to the wreck of the Titanic to test his latest work in the field.
From inside a submersible 13,000 feet beneath the North Atlantic, Alex Waibel recorded himself both narrating his dive and talking with the pilot as they journeyed to the legendary wreck. He then used speech recognition technology... Read More
LTI PhD student Shruti Rijhwani is one of the young humans who will "define the next decade" and "remake our world" in the field of science, according to the 2022 edition of Forbes' highly influential "30 Under 30" list.
Rijhwani, a 4th-year PhD student advised by LTI Associate Professor Graham Neubig, was noted for her research in utilizing Natural Language Processing techniques to... Read More
Alex Hauptmann’s lab in the LTI has developed a reputation for sophisticated analysis of video recordings of crowds, particularly when the crowds turn newsworthy. In an ongoing partnership with the Washington Post, they have already provided a crucial analysis of the January 6th incident at the US Capitol. This latest installment demonstrates how robust, nimble, and adaptable the technologies developed by Hauptmann’s group are. The analysis demonstrates, in vivid detail, that most of the Astroworld victims were packed into a single space, contrary to the recommendations of safety... Read More
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The Language Technologies Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science is recruiting interns for Summer 2022. The topic of the internship will be “Language Technology For All,” where you will focus on performing research on cutting-edge language systems to make them more accurate, efficient, or inclusive.
Specific topics... Read More
Kayo Yin, a student in the LTI's Master of Language Technologies program, was honored with the Best Theme Paper designation at this year's Joint Conference of the 59th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021). Yin is the lead author of the paper Including Signed Languages in Natural Language Processing, which seeks to expand the usage of powerful tools and techniques from the field of Natural Language Processing into the realm of signed... Read More
A machine translation company co-founded by Alex Waibel, a professor in the Language Technologies Institute, has been acquired by Zoom to bolster the platform's real-time translation.
Kites, founded in 2015 by Waibel and Sebastian Stüker, originated from research by the pair at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany... Read More