Human Language Technologies Research Center

If you haven't done so already, go check Quote—Unquote - a new interdisciplinary platform active in Bucharest.

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Quote—Unquote is an interdisciplinary platform that investigates the mechanisms, uses and effects of (public) speech in contemporary society through artistic practice and its intersection with other fields of activity. By observing the educational and performative turns of the last few decades and the growing importance of the discursive act in the field of visual arts, this initiative proposes a dialogic turn and rhizomic formats. Quote—Unquote follows and provokes the juxtaposition of various practices in order to create new productions and an understanding of the event in itself as a process of transformation and co-creation.

Quote—Unquote is conceived by Infinite Conversation, an independent curatorial unit founded in Bucharest by Dan Angelescu, Irina Radu and Cristina Vasilescu.

Quote—Unquote Platform on public speech, initiated by Infinite Conversation

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-problem/

Creating machines that understand language is AI’s next big challenge Machines that truly understand language would be incredibly useful. But we don’t know how to build them.

ai bias strikes again

'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency?

Program – Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Natural Language Processing Program Date: Sunday, July 30th, 2017.Location: Vancouver, CanadaProgram:  Full-day event including: Three invited speakers Oral presentations and posters A mentoring & recruiting lunch Invited speakers Pascale Fung Ndapa Nakashole Bonnie Webber                       Schedule 07:30 - 08:30ACL regist...

Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI)
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We invite you to join us at our AI conference that will take place Monday and Tuesday, 1st floor in Stoilow Hall, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
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Proudly organized by The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest, Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică, Universitatea din Bucureşti and Human Language Technologies Research Center, and sponsored by Bitdefender
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http://unibuc.ro/~conference/raai2017/ -ajenda

RAAI 2017 The main goal of the conference is to bring together active researchers in various fields of Artificial Intelligence, presenting state of the art research topics and projects (published or ongoing work) as well as reports concerning the up to date technologies related to their fields of study. In ad...