Series
Following Instructions and Asking Questions
Abstract: As we move towards the creation of embodied agents that understand natural language, several new challenges and complexities arise for grounding (e.g. complex state spaces), planning (e.g. long horizons), and social interaction (e.g. asking for help or clarifications). In this talk, I'll discuss improvements to embodied instruction following within ALFRED and initial steps towards building agents that ask questions or model theory-of-mind.
Meg Cychosz (HESP) will give an overview of the process of applying for academic jobs (applications, interviews, job talks, negotiations), and answer all your burning questions!
Lunch will be served starting at 12:15. (Vegan options availalble, but GF options could be a bit odd... like a lettuce wrap.)
Language Chats
Come practice, improve, or maintain your language skills in a casual setting at Saint Mary's.
Weekly on Monday afternoons: 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28
Language Chats also provide you with the opportunity to meet with native speakers of each language and to find conversational partners of varying proficiency levels.
Enhanced Perception and Cognition in Deaf Sign Language Users? EEG and Behavioral Evidence
Planet Cloze: The expanding universe of lexical prediction models
Rosa Lee (LING), Katherine Howitt (LING), London Dixon (LING), Tal Ness (HESP), Masato Nakamura (LING)
Harnessing Children’s Messy, Naturalistic Environments to Understand Speech and Language Development
Infants Learn From The Messy Dynamics of Their Natural Communicative Environments
Although we will continue to offer a Zoom option for LSLT for now, we strongly encourage you to attend in person! The talk is only part of the point of LSLT: it's a good opportunity to meet and chat with students and faculty in other departments. And there's lunch!
Zoom link: https://go.umd.edu/lslt-zoom (If there are no virtual attendees by 12:40, the Zoom room will be closed.)
Cortical Processing during Auditory Attention: Arithmetic and Simple Sentences
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