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Eskenazi Named International Speech Communication Association Fellow

LTI Professor Maxine Eskenazi's work has focused on obtaining quality data through crowdsourcing and developing speech systems designed to help the user

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Callan Inducted to Inaugural Class of ACM SIGIR Academy

The LTI's Interim Director is among the first to be honored by the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to the field of Information Retreival

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AI May Mistake Chess Discussions as Racist Talk, LTI Researchers Find

The findings highlight the need for robust and subject matter-specific training data

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Eskenazi Named International Speech Communication Association Fellow

Speech processing research is at a high right now, with virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, Google and others always listening and willing to help.But without a keen eye — or ear — for who this technology aims to assist, interest could wane, said Maxine Eskenazi, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher in the School of Computer Science who has worked on speech processing and spoken...

LTI's Callan Among Inaugural Inductees to ACM SIGIR Academy

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) announced recently that Language Technologies Institute Interim Director and Professor Jamie Callan is one of the inaugural inductees into its new ACM SIGIR Academy. The ACM SIGIR Academy honors and recognizes individuals who have made significant, cumulative contributions to...

AI May Mistake Chess Discussions as Racist Talk, LTI Researchers Find

"The Queen's Gambit," the recent TV mini-series about a chess master, may have stirred increased interest in chess, but a word to the wise: social media talk about game-piece colors could lead to misunderstandings, at least for hate-speech detection software.That's what a pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers suspect happened to Antonio Radić, or "agadmator," a Croatian chess player...

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