SCALE@NTU Research Seminar Nov 2022

This research seminar is organized by Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises (SCALE@NTU). For registration, please visit:

https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe88/REGISTER_NTU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA22110914203410

Invited Talk: On Robustifying AI with Data Intelligence

Abstract : Large-scale language models have enabled super-human fluency in diverse NLP tasks, potentially revolutionizing human-machine and human-human interactions. However, their limited robustness is observed to be a major obstacle and cannot be overcome by increasing scale. This talk argues current norms of model training are too constrained and lead to over-confident models, then discusses our recent work, showing how knowledge such as causality and evidentiality can enrich interactions towards robust training of NLP models. A longer version of this talk (with older results) can be found as EDBT 2022 keynote.

Speaker : Seung-won Hwang is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University. Prior to joining SNU, she has been a tenured faculty at POSTECH and Yonsei University, after her PhD from UIUC. Her research contributions lie at the intersection of NLP, Information Retrieval, and Data Intelligence, published as 100+ top-tier conference papers and transferred to products from industry collaborations, recognized by Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award. More details can be found at http://seungwonh.github.io.