Coffee Chat: Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing (October 27 - November 3, 2022)

Join me for a chill live-stream where we chat about the last week in machine learning and NLP including: new products, software tools, research papers, ethics and professional news. 0:00 - Starting Soon 1:04 - Intro 2:59 - Research 3:11 - Research: Are All Spurious Features in Natural Language Alike? An Analysis through a Causal Lens 42:03 - Research: Everyday data cultures: Beyond Big Critique and the technological sublime by Jean Burgess 1:03:26 - Do smart speaker skills support diverse audiences? 1:09:29 - Colonizing the Home as Data-Source:Investigating the Language of Amazon Skills and Google Actions 1:22:00 - The Semantic Derogation of "Female" 1:36:46 - Professional stuff 2:19:15 - Politics 2:31:47 - Ethics 2:43:37 - Fun! ------------------------------------ Welcome! My name is Dr. Rachael Tatman and I'm a language technology educator. I have a doctorate in linguistics (my research was in computational sociolinguistics) and I've been a researcher, data analyst and developer advocate. My channel is for anyone who cares about language technology and other people. If you'd like to support my work, the best way currently is through my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/rctatman/tiers You can keep up with me here: My Twitter: https://twitter.com/rctatman My Mastodon: https://mastodon.rctatman.com/@rctatman My GitHub: https://github.com/rctatman My website: http://www.rctatman.com/ #languagetechnology #naturallanguageprocessing #speechtechnology