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Language Technologies Institute Summer Internships 2021

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.Specific topics include:Natural Language Processing (including machine translation, language...

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...

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...

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