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LTI Well Represented at NAACL HLT 2018

The leading conference in computational linguistics and natural language processing features papers by 23 LTI faculty members and students.

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Let's Go! Dataset Publicly Released

The large-scale human-machine dialog dataset, collected since the launch of the project in 2005, includes over 170,000 spoken dialog interactions.

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Morency Receives Finmeccanica Chair

The three-year professorship is endowed by Italian conglomerate Finmeccanica to support outstanding young faculty members in the School of Computer Science.

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23 LTI Researchers Represented at NAACL HLT 2018 Conference

LTI faculty and students are featured heavily at the 2018 conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2018). The conference includes 15 papers with at least one LTI author, with 23 members of the LTI community represented in total. Additionally, two LTI faculty members – assistant professors Graham Neubig and...

Let's Go! Large-Scale Human-Machine Dialog Dataset Publicly Released

In March, 2005, a team of LTI researchers launched a spoken dialog system aimed at providing after-hours information to users of the Allegheny County public transit system. 13 years later, the system has handled over 200,000 calls, producing data that’s been used in over 22 doctoral theses and more than 250 publications outside the CMU community. And now, that data is publicly available to...

Morency Receives Finmeccanica Chair

Language Technologies Institute Assistant Professor Louis-Philippe Morency received a three-year Finmeccanica Career Development Professorship in Computer Science during a Feb. 19 ceremony.Morency joined the LTI in 2015 as an assistant professor and director of the Multimodal Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory. His research focuses on enabling computers to analyze,...

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