NLP & Speech

We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1 Million AI prize

Regina Barzilay (PhD '03), the first winner of the Squirrel AI Award, talks to MIT Tech Review on why the pandemic should be a wake-up call.

Heroes of Natural Language Processing

Professor Kathy McKeown talks with DeepLearning.AI's Andrew Ng about how she started in artificial intelligence (AI), her research projects, how her understanding of AI has changed through the decades, and AI career advice for learners of NLP.

Research from the NLP & Speech Group Accepted to ACL 2022

CS researchers presented their work at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022).

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.