Apps that teach users a new language are nothing new, but a team of LTI graduate students are reinventing language learning with their new app, Swych.
Developed initially as a project for Carnegie Mellon's Machine Translation course, Swych allows a user to learn a new language by simply reading one of his or her favorite books. The app translates various words and phrases throughout the book into one of five languages — Chinese, English, French, German or Spanish. When a user encounters foreign phrases, they can click on the phrase to... Read More
Language Technologies Institute Director and Allen Newell Professor of Computer Science Jaime Carbonell has received the 2015 Okawa Prize for "outstanding contributions to research in language technologies, machine learning and computational biology in the field of artificial intelligence."
Presented by the Okawa Foundation, the Okawa Prize pays tribute... Read More
A Carnegie Mellon system designed to rapidly answer questions — even some seemingly off the wall — posed to the Yahoo! Answers website received the highest score by far in the LiveQA evaluation track at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2015).
"This is the question answering that really matters to people," said LTI Professor Eric Nyberg, who heads the Open Advancement of Question Answering (OAQA) group. "These are... Read More
Carnegie Mellon celebrated a strong showing last month at ASSETS 2015, where a team of researchers earned the Best Demonstration Award and a student took third place in the Student Research Competition.
Jeff Bigham, an associate professor in both the LTI and Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), joined forces with HCII post-doc Luz Rello... Read More
The October issue of The Atlantic featured LTI Assistant Professor Louis-Philippe Morency's research into using computers to analyze, recognize and predict subtle human behaviors during social interactions. The article, "Machines That Can See Depression on a Person's Face," talks about how machine learning gives scientists news ways to interpret subtle facial expressions, discusses the... Read More
LTI Professor Eric Nyberg has joined forces with Deloitte University Press on the launch of its new massive open online course (MOOC) "Cognitive Technologies: The Real Opportunities for Business." Nyberg serves as a knowledge expert and contributor for the course, which examines artificial intelligence and its impact on businesses across industries.
"AI aims to make machines perform tasks that only humans used to be able to do, and it is no... Read More
LTI Assistant Professor Louis-Philippe Morency's research into multimodal speech and gesture analysis has put him on the international stage. Last month, the World Economic Forum recognized him as one of this year's class of Young Scientists — scientists under the age of 40 who are advancing the frontiers of science, engineering or technology in areas of high societal impact.
"As part of this award, I had the chance to attend the summer meeting of the World Economic Forum," Morency said. "It was a great opportunity to better understand the global view of scientific research and how... Read More
LTI Director and Allen Newell University Professor of Computer Science Jaime Carbonell will lead the new Boeing/Carnegie Mellon Aerospace Data Analytics Lab, an academic research initiative that will leverage the university's leadership in machine learning, language technologies and data analytics.
A joint initiative of Carnegie Mellon University and The Boeing Company, the new lab aims to find ways to use artificial intelligence and big data to capitalize on the data generated in the design, construction and operation of modern aircraft. Creating a maintenance schedule determined... Read More
Po-Yao Huang, a graduate student in the LTI's Master of Language Technologies program, has been named a 2016 Siebel Scholar for his outstanding academic achievement and demonstrated leadership. The program recognizes the most talented students at the world's leading graduate schools of business, bioengineering, computer science and energy science. Each Siebel Scholar receives a $35,000 award for their final year of study.
Huang contributed to speech algorithm development in one of world's largest mobile IC houses, where he... Read More
LTI graduate students Sneha Chaudhari and Mick Zomnir have been named 2015 James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellows. They're two of just 14 fellows selected this year.
An initiative of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Swartz Fellowship fast-tracks the careers of CMU graduate students who are passionate about entrepreneurship in the technology arena. The highly selective program develops each... Read More