NLP & Speech
Research papers from the Natural Language Processing and Speech groups have been accepted to the 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT 2021).
PhD student Tuhin Chakrabarty's thesis about creative writing and large language models was featured in the Washington Post.
Influential computer scientist Kathy McKeown heads up two multi-million dollar grants—one to analyze cross-cultural norms and another to better understand grief in the Black community.
About
The Speech and Natural Language Processing groups do fundamental work in language understanding and generation with applications to a wide variety of topics, including summarization, argumentation, persuasion, sentiment, detecting deceptive, emotional and charismatic speech, text-to-speech synthesis, analysis of social media to detect mental illness, abusive language, and radicalization.
The groups collaborate closely on many research projects with each other, with language faculty in other universities, and with Columbia faculty in other disciplines. They also mentor a very large number of master’s and undergraduate research project students who participate in their research each semester. They have regular talks for faculty, students, and the larger New York area community.
Spoken Language Processing Group 
Natural Language Processing Group 
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