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LTI Researchers Featured Prominently at EMNLP

37 Main Conference and 19 Findings Papers Accepted from LTI-Affiliated Authors at leading conference for Natural Language Processing

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LTI Research Group Now Live on Google Scholar

LTI researchers are working every day to advance the state of the art in their fields -- visit our Google Scholar Research Group profile to stay up-to-date on their latest publications

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Amateur Drone Videos Could Aid in Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

LTI system uses social media posts to assess building damage

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The Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon educates the leaders of tomorrow and performs groundbreaking research in the areas of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Extraction, Summarization & Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Text Mining & Analytics, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning & Acquisition, Language Technologies for Education, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Speech Processing, and Spoken Interfaces & Dialogue Processing.

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LTI Researchers Featured Prominently at EMNLP

An impressive 46 papers by LTI faculty and students were accepted at the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), including 37 main conference accepted papers and 19 papers accepted to the newly added Findings publication.Organized by the Association for Computational Linguisitcs, and now in its 25th year, EMNLP is one of the premier...

Language Technologies Institute Summer Internships 2021

Note: The application deadline has passed, thank everyone who has applied for your interest!The Language Technologies Institute in Carnegie Mellon University is recruiting interns for Summer 2021. 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....

Amateur Drone Videos Could Aid in Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

It wasn't long after Hurricane Laura hit the Gulf Coast Thursday that people began flying drones to record the damage and posting videos on social media. Those videos are a precious resource, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who are working on ways to use them for rapid damage assessment.By using artificial intelligence, the researchers are developing a system that can...

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