[Colloquium] TODAY, 2pm: Data Science/CS Candidate Ana Marasović (Allen Institute for AI)

[Rob Mitchum]

*Data Science Institute/Computer Science Candidate Seminar*

*Ana Marasović*
*Postdoctoral Researcher*

*Allen Institute for AI (AI2)*

*Tuesday, February 15th*
*2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.*
*In-Person: John Crerar Library, Room 390*
*Remote: Live Stream <http://live.cs.uchicago.edu/anamarasovic/> or Zoom
<https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91678272132?pwd=bGtrdlVtYWFZU0NYYmNoMG9ZZUcwdz09>
(details
below)*


*Self-Explaining for Intuitive Interaction with AI*

Since it is increasingly harder to opt out from interacting with AI
technology, people demand that AI is capable of maintaining contracts such
that it supports agency and oversight of people who are required to use it
or who are affected by it. To help those people create a mental model about
how to interact with AI systems, I extend the underlying models to
self-explain—predict the label/answer and explain this prediction. In this
talk, I will present how to generate (1) free-text explanations given in
plain English that immediately tell users the gist of the reasoning, and
(2) contrastive explanations that help users understand how they could
change the text to get another label.

*Bio*: Ana Marasović <https://www.anamarasovic.com/> is a postdoctoral
researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) and the Paul G. Allen School
of Computer Science & Engineering at University of Washington. Her research
interests broadly lie in the fields of natural language processing,
explainable AI, and multimodal learning. Her projects are motivated by a
unified goal: improve interaction and control of the NLP systems to help
people make these systems do what they want with the confidence that
they’re getting exactly what they need. Prior to joining AI2, Ana obtained
her PhD from Heidelberg University.

*Host*: Chenhao Tan

*Zoom Info:*
https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91678272132?pwd=bGtrdlVtYWFZU0NYYmNoMG9ZZUcwdz09
Meeting ID: 916 7827 2132
Password: ds2022


-- 
*Rob Mitchum*

*Associate Director of Communications for Data Science and Computing*
*University of Chicago*
*rmitchum at uchicago.edu <rmitchum at ci.uchicago.edu>*
*773-484-9890*
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