CESTA Seminar Series with Dr. Dan Jurafsky

Date
Tue October 30th 2018, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Event Sponsor
Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
Location
Wallenberg Hall, Fourth Floor
CESTA Seminar Series with Dr. Dan Jurafsky

Please join us Tuesday, October 30th, in the seminar room at CESTA (Bldg. 160, Rm. 433A) from 12:00–1:20pm for the next lecture in our fall quarter CESTA Seminar Series.   

Dr. Dan Jurafsky will present on:

Automatically Extracting Social Meaning from Language

Abstract:  

In this talk, Dr. Jurafsky describes research from his lab on computationally extracting social meaning from language, meaning that takes into account social relationships between people. He studies interactions between police and community members in traffic stops recorded in body-worn camera footage, using language to measure interaction quality, study the role of race, and draw suggestions for going forward in this fraught area. He then show how understanding of framing and socio-economic variables can be extracted from the language of food: menus, reviews, and advertising. He also discusses computational methods for studying how meaning changes over time and how these changes can be used to study historical societal biases and cultural preconceptions. Together, these studies highlight how computational methods can help us interpret some of the latent social content behind the words we use.

About the speaker: 

Dan Jurafsky is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on the extraction of meaning, intention, and affect from text and speech, on the processing of Chinese, and on applying natural language processing to the cognitive and social sciences. Dan is passionate about NLP education; he is the co-author of the widely-used textbook "Speech and Language Processing" and co-taught the first massive open online class on natural language processing. The recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, Dan is also a 2015 James Beard Award Nominee for his book, "The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu".

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