Speaker Series
The Stony Brook NLP Speaker Series invites distinguished researchers from the northeast and across the world to present on cutting-edge work in language analysis and computational linguistics. Talks are typically held in New Computer Science room 120 (our brand new lecture hall) and are open to anyone in the Stony Brook community.
Upcoming:
September 30, 2024: Wei Xu, Georgia Tech
Formal Planning using Large Language Models.
Past Talks:
September 24, 2024: Li (Harry) Zhang , Drexel University
Formal Planning using Large Language Models.
February, 2024 Joao Sedoc, New York University
Human-Centered Dialog Evaluation
August 18, 2023: Allison Lahnala, University of Bonn, Germany
Social NLP for Discourse & Conversation Modeling
September 1, 2023 Lucie Flek, University of Bonn, Germany
NLP for Mental Health
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October 4, 2019: Guillermo Cecchi IBM TJ Watson Center, New York
Computational Psychiatry in IBM Research: an overview from neuroimaging to language
October 18, 2019: Dirk Hovy, University of Bocconi, Italy
Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them
October 25, 2019: Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro Bloomberg LP, New York City
TBD
Feb 15th, 2019: Dipanjan Das, Google AI, New York
Learning to Generate and Understand Discourse via Wikipedia Edits
April 9, 2019: Dan Jurafsky Stanford University (part of CS department distinguished lecture series)
Does This Vehicle Belong to You? Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations
September 17, 2018: Rediet Abebe, Cornell University
Information and Overexposure in Word-of-Mouth Campaigns
February 9, 2018: Noah Smith, University of Washington (part of CS department distinguished lecture series)
New Applications of Natural Language Processing: Measuring Ideas and Machine-in-the-Loop Creativity
November 17, 2017: Kyunghyun Cho, New York University.
Neural Machine Translation
November 3, 2017: Hal Daume III, University of Maryland, College Park.
Language learning through interactions
October 23, 2017: Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
Interdisciplinary NLP with Social Media: International Relations and Cybersecurity Attacks on Twitter.
October 13, 2017: Johannes Eichstaedt, University of Pennsylvania.
New Results in Psychological Data Science: Insights about the Well-Being of Communities, and Tracking Emotions within Individuals.
May 8, 2017: David Bamman, University of California, Berkeley
Challenges in the Computational Analysis of Large Book Corpora.