IST LUNCH BUNCH

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Annenberg 105

Towards Understanding and Generating Language for Effective Social Interaction

Chenhao Tan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science (by courtsey) at University of Colorado Boulder, Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder,

Language delivers more than its semantics meaning in social interaction. How a message or an argument is worded can change people's minds and actions. To study this ubiquitous phenomenon scientifically and account for confounding factors, the abundance of online social interaction provides great opportunities. This talk will focus on analyzing the effect of wording by leveraging online conversations. The settings range from message virality on Twitter to argument effectiveness on the ChangeMyView subreddit. This talk will also present recent efforts to assist individuals in creative writing with a machine in the loop.

This is joint work with Elizabeth Clark, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Yangfeng Ji, Lillian Lee, Vlad Niculae, Bo Pang, Annie Ross, and Noah Smith.

For more information, please contact Diane Goodfellow by phone at 6267972398 or by email at [email protected].

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