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Could Your Computer Please Be More Polite? Thank You

Method developed by LTI and other CMU researchers automatically makes requests more polite

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A Message From LTI Interim Director Jamie Callan

Confronting Racism: #ShutdownSTEM, #ShutdownAcademia, and our shared responsibility

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LTI Well Represented at ACL 2020 Conference

38 papers from LTI faculty and students were accepted into the 58th edition of "the premier conference of the field of computational linguistics."

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Could Your Computer Please Be More Polite? Thank You

In a tense time when a pandemic rages, politicians wrangle for votes and protesters demand racial justice, a little politeness and courtesy go a long way. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an automated method for making communications more polite.Specifically, the method takes nonpolite directives or requests — those that use either impolite or neutral language — and...

A Message From LTI Interim Director Jamie Callan: Confronting Racism

Dear Members of the LTI Community,Like many of you, I was horrified by the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. I wish that I could say I was shocked, but I remember Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Amadou Diallo, and other African Americans who died from police and vigilante violence. Although there has been much improvement in...

LTI Well Represented at ACL 2020 Conference

The 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020) features a bevy of accepted papers from LTI faculty and students – 38 in all. In addition to the large contingent of LTI-authored papers, a number of LTI students and faculty members are involved in workshops affiliated with the ACL conference, either as members of organizing committees, or as invited...

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