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

Tue Feb 27 10:13:32 CST 2018

 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>*

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Mary Marre <mmarre at ttic.edu> wrote:

> 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 <(773)%20834-1757>*
> *f: (773) 357-6970 <(773)%20357-6970>*
> *mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Mary Marre <mmarre at ttic.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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 <(773)%20834-1757>*
>> *f: (773) 357-6970 <(773)%20357-6970>*
>> *mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
>>
>
>
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