Podcast: What ‘bhasha’ do you want to talk in? With Kalika Bali and Dr. Monojit Choudhury
Many of us who speak multiple languages switch seamlessly between them in conversations and even mix multiple languages in one sentence. For us humans, this is something we do naturally, but it’s a nightmare for computing systems to understand mixed…
When the COVID-19 pandemic was in its early stages, several agencies published infection and mortality data for different geographical regions in the public domain. This data appeared in web pages, CSV files, JSON files, and more. There was plenty of…
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Microsoft researchers say NLP bias studies must consider role of social hierarchies like racism
As the recently released GPT-3 and several recent studies demonstrate, racial bias, as well as bias based on gender, occupation, and religion, can be found in popular NLP language models. But a team of AI researchers wants the NLP bias…
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What bhasha do you want to talk in?
Many of us who speak multiple languages switch seamlessly between them in conversations and even mix multiple languages in one sentence. For us humans, this is something we do naturally, but it’s a nightmare for computing systems to understand mixed…
As COVID-19 reshapes large sections of the workforce, many employees have found themselves struggling to establish a work-life balance. A survey conducted by the Browser User Researcher team looked at how Information Workers (IWs) are adapting to their new environments…
Meeting Insights: Contextual assistance for everyone
| Abhishek Arun, Ramakrishna Bairi, Paul Bennett, Kevin Moynihan, and Adam D. Troy
It’s a big day for you. Back-to-back meetings are scheduled with critical customers and partners, and a parent-teacher conference is sandwiched in there as well. As you’re headed toward the last meeting, suddenly you cannot remember the key talking points.…
He was the first Chinese scholar to become a “complete” fellow at all the following organizations: ACM, AAAI, IEEE, AAAS and IAPR. He was the first Chinese scholar to serve as the program chair of AAAI. He was elected as…
Old tools, new tricks: Improving the computational notebook experience for data scientists
| Titus Barik, Ishita Prasad, Rob DeLine, and Sumit Gulwani
As technology has advanced, the way we accomplish things in our lives has shifted. While new tech is influencing such basic human activities as communication, for instance, encouraging us to reconsider what it means to connect with one another, technological…