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URL:https://cds.iisc.ac.in/events/seminar-cds-102-05th-january-2024-multim
 odality-for-multilingual-nlp-the-need-an-application-and-open-questions/
SUMMARY:{Seminar} @ CDS: #102 : 05th January\, 2024 : "Multimodality for Mu
 ltilingual NLP: The need\, an application\, and open questions"
DESCRIPTION:Department of Computational and Data Sciences\n\nDepartment Sem
 inar\n\n\n\nSpeaker : Ms. Simran Khanuja\nTitle : "Multimodality for Multi
 lingual NLP: The need\, an application\, and open questions "\nDate &amp\;
  Time : January 05\, 2024\, 03:00 PM\n\nVenue : # 102\, CDS Seminar Hall\n
 \n\n\nABSTRACT\n\nOur world is multimodal and multilingual\, demanding NLP
  technology to be reflective of the same. From a cognitive perspective\, m
 ultimodality is intricately linked with multilingualism in the brain. From
  an application perspective\, this would make models capable of interpreti
 ng and generating human-like responses. In this talk\, we will first prese
 nt a bird's eye view on the benefits of multimodal modeling for multilingu
 al NLP (the need). We will specifically focus on the visual and text modal
 ity\, and discuss how real-world tasks would benefit from such models. Nex
 t\, we will narrow down on our focus to one such application\, that of tra
 nslating images across cultures (an application). Specifically\, we will d
 iscuss our recent work on assessing the state of generative AI to do the t
 ask\, and highlight existing gaps and biases of these models. Finally\, we
  will broaden the discussion to explore open research questions in this ex
 citing field\, and consider potential strategies for addressing these issu
 es (open questions).\n\nBIOGRAPHY\n\nSimran Khanuja is a second-year PhD s
 tudent at Carnegie Mellon University\, working with Prof. Graham Neubig. H
 er research interests lie in multilingual\, multimodal modeling\, and down
 stream applications that would benefit from such models. Prior to this\, s
 he worked at Google and Microsoft Research in India for three years\, cont
 ributing to the development of models and benchmarks for Indian languages.
 \n\nHost Faculty: Dr. Danish Pruthi\n\n\n\nALL ARE WELCOME
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