Event
Talk by David Mimno
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David Mimno will be visiting P1 on Monday and Tuesday next week! He’ll be giving a talk on Monday and will be available for meetings on both Monday and Tuesday. You can sign up for individual/group meetings here!
Title
Ships in the night: What is the path forward for HCI and NLP?
Abstract
Natural language processing and human-computer interaction have long histories as academic fields, but there has historically been little crossover in people, methods, or publication. That gap is rapidly closing. From the HCI side, language models are becoming a dominant format for interactions. From the NLP side, the surge in real usage has led to greater interest and concern for the lived experience of people. Yet the actual engagement between the two fields has been limited by differences in epistemology, methods, and rhetorical styles. In this talk I discuss some of the opportunities for HCI/NLP crossover as well as a guide to the structural challenges that have made this crossover hard.
Speaker
David Mimno is an associate professor and chair of the department of Information Science at Cornell University. He holds a PhD from UMass Amherst and was previously the head programmer at the Perseus Project at Tufts and a researcher at Princeton University. His work has been supported by the Sloan foundation, the NEH, and the NSF.