[Colloquium] 2/27 Talks at TTIC: He He, Stanford

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

 When:     Tuesday, February 27th at *11:00 am*

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:       He He, Stanford


Title:        Learning Interactive Agents

Abstract: AI has made huge advancement into our daily life and increasingly
we require intelligent agents that work intimately with people in a
changing environment. However, current systems mostly work in a passive
mode: waiting for requests from users and processing them one at a time. An
interactive agent must handle real-time, sequential inputs and actively
collaborate with people through communication. In this talk, I will present
my recent work addressing challenges in real-time language processing and
collaborative dialogue. The first part involves making predictions with
incremental inputs. I will focus on the application of simultaneous machine
interpretation and show how we can produce both accurate and prompt
translations. Then, I will present my work on building agents that
collaborate with people through goal-oriented conversation. I will conclude
by discussing future directions towards adaptive, active agents.

Bio: He He is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. She earned
her Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
She is interested in natural language processing and machine learning. Her
research focuses on building intelligent agents that work in a changing
environment and interact with people, with an emphasis on language-related
problems. Specific applications include dependency parsing, simultaneous
machine interpretation, and goal-oriented dialogue. She is the recipient of
the 2016 Larry S. Davis doctoral dissertation award.


Host: Kevin Gimpel <kgimpel at ttic.edu>



Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 504*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*p:(773) 834-1757*
*f: (773) 357-6970*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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