{"673501":{"#nid":"673501","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Dialect in the Age of Large Language Models","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELarge language models have led to transformative new applications of language technology. But do they work for everyone? The training and evaluation of large language models has focused predominantly on a few language varieties, such as standard American English. Few attempts have been made to measure the effectiveness of these models across the range of language varieties used by speakers of other dialects.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid Eisenstein, research scientist at Google, will briefly survey linguistic theories of dialect, and then describe recent research on:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERecognizing dialect features using large language models\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBuilding multi-dialect datasets\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EMeasuring the robustness of large language models to dialect differences.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/94065217584?pwd=UnJZdzhWalRoTlo1TS83cjlxR3hMdz09\u0022\u003EJoin Online\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMeeting ID\u003C\/strong\u003E: 94065217584\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EPassword\u003C\/strong\u003E: 027712\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us to recognize dialect features using large language models, build multi-dialect datasets, and measure the robustness of large language model to dialect differences.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring David Eisenstein, research scientist at Google, to discuss his research on large language models."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2024-03-12 20:41:31","changed_gmt":"2024-03-12 20:41:31","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-03-27T15:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2024-03-27T16:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-03-27T16:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-03-27 19:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-03-27 20:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-03-27 20:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Online via Zoom","extras":[],"hg_media":{"673374":{"id":"673374","type":"image","title":"headshot-cropped.jpg","body":null,"created":"1710276048","gmt_created":"2024-03-12 20:40:48","changed":"1710276035","gmt_changed":"2024-03-12 20:40:35","alt":"Jacob Eisenstein","file":{"fid":"256762","name":"headshot-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/12\/headshot-cropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/12\/headshot-cropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91744,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/03\/12\/headshot-cropped.jpg?itok=l0c38bSL"}}},"media_ids":["673374"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/94065217584?pwd=UnJZdzhWalRoTlo1TS83cjlxR3hMdz09","title":"Join Online"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKyoko Masuda\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:km210@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekm210@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}