<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:13pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Distinguished Lecture Series:  Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><span id="gmail-m_-318570502333768690gmail-_x0000_t75"></span><span id="gmail-m_-318570502333768690gmail-Picture_x0020_1" type="#_x0000_t75" style="width:108pt;height:123pt"></span></span><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(48,48,48)"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">Monday, October 23, 2017 at 3:00 pm</span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">TTIC</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">Room #526​</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48)">Dan Jurafsky</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black">Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black">Stanford University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/" target="_blank">https://web.stanford.edu/~<wbr>jurafsky/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:14.6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u>Title</u></b>: Automatically Extracting Social Meaning from Language</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u>Abstract</u></b>: I describe three lines of research from our lab on computationally extracting social meaning from language, meaning that takes into account social relationships between people.  We study interactions between police and community members in traffic stops recorded in body-worn camera footage, using language to measure interaction quality, study the role of race, and draw suggestions for going forward in this fraught area.  We computationally model the language of scientific papers and the networks of scientists to better understand the role of interdisciplinarity in scientific innovation and the implications for the history of artificial intelligence.  And we show how understanding of framing and socio-economic variables can be extracted from the language of food:  menus, reviews, and advertising. Together, these studies highlight the importance of social context for interpreting the latent meanings behind the words we use. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u>Bio</u></b><b>: </b>Dan Jurafsky is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science, at Stanford University. His research has focused on the extraction of meaning, intention, and affect from text and speech, on the processing of Chinese, and on applying natural language processing to the cognitive and social sciences. Dan is also passionate about NLP education; he is the co-author of the widely-used textbook “Speech and Language Processing” and co-taught the first massive open online class on natural language processing. The recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, Dan is also a 2015 James Beard Award Nominee for his book, “The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu”.<span style="background:yellow"><br><br></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt"></span></p>
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