Hi all,

Most welcome to a research seminar next Friday, June 5th. We have the pleasure to welcome Cecilia Ovesdotter from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Date: June 5th
Time: 13.15 – ca. 14.30
Place: Aktersalongen

Title: Linguistic sensing for human-centered computing

Speaker: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology

Abstract:
Computational linguistics provides approaches for making sense of applied problems using natural language data, for example in the clinical domain. Linguistic data are unobtrusive, inexpensive, pervasive, natural, and generally convenient to capture, in contrast to many other sensor modalities that may require excessive wearable equipments or smart clothing. This talk will discuss the unconventional notion of natural language data as a rich and meaningful sensor for human-centered computing. From the perspective of computational linguistics, it will present cases of recent and ongoing research that exemplify opportunities, challenges, and considerations involved with linguistic sensing.

Bio:
Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Her research interests focus on linguistic sensing and mining with text, speech, and multimodal data for health-related applications. At RIT, she teaches computational linguistics and language science. She also co-directs the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing Lab.