Lecture: Natural Language Processing

How can Natural Language Processing (NLP) facilitate cross-language communication? Find out more in the lecture by Prof. Marine Carpuat, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. In her lecture on Natural Language Processing, she addresses two main topics: First, she explains why it is so difficult to weigh up the benefits and risks of machine translation. One reason is that users have difficulty assessing the quality if they do not speak either the input language or the output language.

She will also explain why even accurate translations can miss the mark if users lack cultural context because they do not speak the source language. She will present techniques that automatically generate explanations of cultural context.

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