<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Wednesday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, February 15, 2023</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <u>11:30</u></b><b><u><font color="#000000"> a</font></u></b><b><u><font color="#000000">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000"> </font></b></font></font><br></font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div class="gmail_default"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span>(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ca450d5a-9033-4f96-8dce-afa40007dbcf" target="_blank">livestream</a></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Jungo Kasai, University of Washington<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b>Democratized Natural Language Processing: Efficiency, Evaluation, and Beyond</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>In this talk, I advocate for the democratization of natural language processing (NLP) knowledge, where people with diverse backgrounds and groups with diverse budgets can: build, use, analyze, and evaluate models; collaborate to solve research problems; and accelerate advances in NLP. I present three key research contributions towards realizing this long-term goal. First, I will show an approach to improving the efficiency and accessibility of widely-available transformer models, while retaining their performance. Second, I discuss collaborative evaluation frameworks that facilitate reliable evaluations using diverse metrics. Third, I describe a language generation algorithm that customizes general-purpose models for specialized, low-resource domains. I will then conclude by highlighting future directions towards dynamic and massively multilingual applications that are needed in the real world.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Bio: </b>Jungo Kasai is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Noah A. Smith. His research focuses on efficient and accessible models, evaluation methodologies, and language generation algorithms for natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He is supported by an IBM Ph.D. fellowship, the Masason foundation, and a Funai overseas scholarship. His papers have been accepted to top-tier conferences, such as ACL, NAACL, ICML, and EMNLP, receiving a best paper award at NAACL 2022.</font></div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Host:</b><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing:normal">Karen Livescu</a></font></p></div></div></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:15 AM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Wednesday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, February 15, 2023</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <u>11:30</u></b><b><u><font color="#000000"> a</font></u></b><b><u><font color="#000000">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000"> </font></b></font></font><br></font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span>(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ca450d5a-9033-4f96-8dce-afa40007dbcf" target="_blank">livestream</a></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Jungo Kasai, University of Washington<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b>Democratized Natural Language Processing: Efficiency, Evaluation, and Beyond</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>In this talk, I advocate for the democratization of natural language processing (NLP) knowledge, where people with diverse backgrounds and groups with diverse budgets can: build, use, analyze, and evaluate models; collaborate to solve research problems; and accelerate advances in NLP. I present three key research contributions towards realizing this long-term goal. First, I will show an approach to improving the efficiency and accessibility of widely-available transformer models, while retaining their performance. Second, I discuss collaborative evaluation frameworks that facilitate reliable evaluations using diverse metrics. Third, I describe a language generation algorithm that customizes general-purpose models for specialized, low-resource domains. I will then conclude by highlighting future directions towards dynamic and massively multilingual applications that are needed in the real world.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Bio: </b>Jungo Kasai is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Noah A. Smith. His research focuses on efficient and accessible models, evaluation methodologies, and language generation algorithms for natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He is supported by an IBM Ph.D. fellowship, the Masason foundation, and a Funai overseas scholarship. His papers have been accepted to top-tier conferences, such as ACL, NAACL, ICML, and EMNLP, receiving a best paper award at NAACL 2022.</font></div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Host:</b><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" style="letter-spacing:normal" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></font></p></div></div></span><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 2:59 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Wednesday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, February 15, 2023</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <u>11:30</u></b><b><u><font color="#000000"> a</font></u></b><b><u><font color="#000000">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000"> </font></b></font></font><br></font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span>(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ca450d5a-9033-4f96-8dce-afa40007dbcf" target="_blank">livestream</a></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font><span>Jungo</span> Kasai, University of Washington<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b>Democratized Natural Language Processing: Efficiency, Evaluation, and Beyond</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>In this talk, I advocate for the democratization of natural language processing (NLP) knowledge, where people with diverse backgrounds and groups with diverse budgets can: build, use, analyze, and evaluate models; collaborate to solve research problems; and accelerate advances in NLP. I present three key research contributions towards realizing this long-term goal. First, I will show an approach to improving the efficiency and accessibility of widely-available transformer models, while retaining their performance. Second, I discuss collaborative evaluation frameworks that facilitate reliable evaluations using diverse metrics. Third, I describe a language generation algorithm that customizes general-purpose models for specialized, low-resource domains. I will then conclude by highlighting future directions towards dynamic and massively multilingual applications that are needed in the real world.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Bio: </b><span>Jungo</span> Kasai is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Noah A. Smith. His research focuses on efficient and accessible models, evaluation methodologies, and language generation algorithms for natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He is supported by an IBM Ph.D. fellowship, the Masason foundation, and a Funai overseas scholarship. His papers have been accepted to top-tier conferences, such as ACL, NAACL, ICML, and EMNLP, receiving a best paper award at NAACL 2022.</font></div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Host:</b><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" style="letter-spacing:normal" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></font></p><br></div><div><br></div></div></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 7:02 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b> </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Wednesday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, February 15, 2023</span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <u>11:30</u></b><b><u><font color="#000000"> a</font></u></b><b><u><font color="#000000">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000"> </font></b></font></font><br></font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><p style="font-size:small;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div style="font-size:small"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where: </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given </font><font color="#000000" style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><span style="color:black"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"> <i>via</i> Panopto </span>(<b><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=ca450d5a-9033-4f96-8dce-afa40007dbcf" target="_blank">livestream</a></b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b> <font color="#500050"> </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050"> </font></font></font></font></font>Jungo Kasai, University of Washington<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title: </b>Democratized Natural Language Processing: Efficiency, Evaluation, and Beyond</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Abstract: </b>In this talk, I advocate for the democratization of natural language processing (NLP) knowledge, where people with diverse backgrounds and groups with diverse budgets can: build, use, analyze, and evaluate models; collaborate to solve research problems; and accelerate advances in NLP. I present three key research contributions towards realizing this long-term goal. First, I will show an approach to improving the efficiency and accessibility of widely-available transformer models, while retaining their performance. Second, I discuss collaborative evaluation frameworks that facilitate reliable evaluations using diverse metrics. Third, I describe a language generation algorithm that customizes general-purpose models for specialized, low-resource domains. I will then conclude by highlighting future directions towards dynamic and massively multilingual applications that are needed in the real world.</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Bio: </b><span>Jungo</span> <span>Kasai</span> is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Noah A. Smith. His research focuses on efficient and accessible models, evaluation methodologies, and language generation algorithms for natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He is supported by an IBM Ph.D. fellowship, the Masason foundation, and a Funai overseas scholarship. His papers have been accepted to top-tier conferences, such as ACL, NAACL, ICML, and EMNLP, receiving a best paper award at NAACL 2022.</font></div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Host:</b><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu" style="letter-spacing:normal" target="_blank">Karen Livescu</a></font></p><p style="font-size:small;color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px">
</p></div></div></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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