The CMU Portugal Program is organizing a series of webinars titled “Data Science Talks @ CMU Portugal”, in the framework of the Advanced Training Program in Data Science and Machine Learning of the CMU Portugal Program, which is planned to start in 2021.
The third talk will take place on February 23rd, from 2-3 p. m. (Lisbon) / 9-10 a.m. (Pittsburgh) with Ashique Khudabukhsh, Project Scientist at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the theme “Social, Cultural and Political Biases through the Lens of NLP”.
Attendance is free. Registration is required.
Short Abstract
In this talk, Ashique KhudaBukhsh will summarize three broad lines of NLP research focusing on firstly cultural and social biases in popular Bollywood and Hollywood movies, secondly the long-standing international conflict between the two nuclear adversaries India and Pakistan, and moreover the current US political crisis.
