UMIACS
Title: A Framework to Model Human Behavior at LargeScale during Natural Disasters
Title: From Linguistic Signal to Mental State: Computational Models of Framing
Theme 4: Flexible Speech Recognition
Panelists:
Theme 3: Building Meanings in Computation and Cognition
Panelists:
Jeff Lidz (LING)
Alexander Williams (LING/PHIL)
Philip Resnik (LING/UMIACS)
Navigating the gray areas: a discussion of ethical dilemmas in language science
Theme 2: Prediction and Millisecond-scale Information Management
Panelists:
Join us for the third faculty lunch talk at Winter Storm 2016. Lunch will be provided by Basak Karatas.
Speaker: Philip Resnik
Title: It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: Modeling Linguistic Framing in Politics and Mental Health
ABSTRACT
Humans can describe observations and act upon requests. This requires that language be grounded in perception and motor control. I will present several components of my long-term research program to understand the vision-language-motor interface in the human brain and emulate such on computers.
A question-answering system designed by researchers from UMD and the University of Colorado holds its own against a top human team.