NLP & Speech
Several recent papers identify deceptive behavior, looking at within- and cross-culture
differences, and investigating also verbal cues to predict deceptive strategies within cultures.
Modeling Reportable Events as Turning Points in Narrative | Sarcastic or Not: Word-Embeddings to Predict the Literal or Sarcastic Meaning of Words | A Sentiment Lexicon for Standard Arabic | Density-Driven Cross-Lingual Transfer of Dependency Parsers
The grant will fund fifteen researchers from five universities to design and build an end-to-end human language technology capable of using an English query to quickly search, retrieve, and summarize documents in any of the world’s 6000+ languages.
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Natural Language Processing and Spoken Language Processing involves computational approaches to the analysis and generation of text and speech. At Columbia these include text and speech summarization, question answering, machine translation, syntax and parsing, language generation, spoken dialogue systems, semantic representation and analysis, and the study of emotional and deceptive speech, in English, Arabic, and Mandarin, inter alia.
Spoken Language Processing Group 
Natural Language Processing Group 
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