Following Your Heart: Recognizing Emotions in Human-Computer Communication
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Dr. Ellen Riloff
Department Head and Professor, Computer Science
More than ever, people are communicating with computers through writing and conversation. Emotions are central to the human experience, so computers must understand not only what people are literally saying but also what they are feeling.
In this talk, Dr. Ellen Riloff will explain why recognizing emotions is essential for computational language understanding and why it remains so challenging, including underlying phenomena such as ambiguity, sarcasm, implicit meaning, and common sense knowledge.
All lectures are free and open to the public. RSVP here. Doors open at Centennial Hall at 6:15 p.m. The lectures begin at 7:00 p.m. and last approximately one hour.
The lectures will be livestreamed on the UAZScience YouTube channel.