VORTRAG: Prof. Liana Ermakova, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France.
JOKER: TOWARDS AUTOMATION OF WORDPLAY TRANSLATION
Laughter is a non-verbal social signal which is omnipresent in our
everyday interactions. Nevertheless, current spoken dialogue systems are
not equipped to understand and express the contextual variety of
meanings associated with it. In this talk I will discuss our recent
studies aimed at achieving this goal. In the first part of my talk, I
focus on the role of laughter in meaning construction and attribution of
communicative intents, showing how different dialogue acts are
characterised by specific laughter patterns. In the second part, I will
look at the particular instances of laughs in task-oriented dialogue and
propose a formal account for dealing with them in a dialogue management
component of spoken dialogue systems.
Biography: Liana Ermakova has been an associate professor at the
University of Western Brittany (Brest, France) since 2017. After
obtaining the PhD in computer science in 2016 in Toulouse, she was a
post-doc at the interdisciplinary research laboratory LISIS in Paris.
Her primary area of research is information retrieval, natural language
processing and artificial intelligence. Prof. Ermakova has worked on
evaluation metrics, information distortion analysis, multi-document
summarisation, text simplification (project SimpleText), scientometrics.
She leads the project JOKER: Interculturality and Localization of Humor
and Puns, which aims to build a parallel corpus of wordplay (2021-2022).
She has participated in the organisation of various conferences,
workshops and evaluation campaigns, including CLEF tracks, and is a
member of the competition division of the French Association for
Artificial Intelligence. She teaches Pre- and post-editing, Computer
aided translation, website localization, NLP to the master in
translation students and AI to the students of The École nationale
d’ingénieurs de Brest.
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Time: Tuesday, 15 February 2022 at 18:30
Location: on ZOOM
URL: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85178563906?pwd=Ui9iR0RIM0wxd1BXWktGV1FUcTJCQT09
Meeting ID: 851 7856 3906
Passcode: 101127
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