Tuesday, February 18, 2025 5:30pm to 7pm
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The sixth Faculty Pub Night of the 2024-25 season features Anna Farzindar, clinical professor of computer science (Seaver College of Science and Engineering). She will discuss her recent co-authored book, "Natural Language Processing for Social Media."
About Faculty Pub Night
Students, staff, faculty, alumni, and members of the public are all invited to the 2024-25 series of Faculty Pub Night at the William H. Hannon Library. Eight LMU professors are selected annually to discuss their latest publication or project in a comfortable setting and format that welcomes diverse perspectives for an inclusive conversation aimed to educate the entire community. All Faculty Pub Nights are free and open to the public.
About the Author's Work
In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication. The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing on the latter’s impact on our daily lives, both on a personal and a professional level. Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most promising avenues for social media data processing. It is a scientific challenge to develop powerful methods and algorithms that extract relevant information from a large volume of data coming from multiple sources and languages in various formats or in free form.
NLP is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and linguistics. But when we address the semantic analysis of social media, many other disciplines would be involved such as psychology, healthcare, politics, business, etc. This lecture is based on the upcoming fourth edition of the book called “Natural Language Processing for Social Media”, co-authored by professor Anna Farzindar and professor Diana Inkpen from University of Ottawa, published by Springer.
In this lecture, She will discuss the challenges in analyzing social media texts in contrast with traditional documents. Research methods in information extraction, automatic categorization and clustering, automatic summarization and indexing, and statistical machine translation adapted to this new kind of data. In addition, she will discuss the use of recent large language models (LLM) and systems, such as ChapGPT, in the context of social media. Also, she will elaborate the ethics of AI and responsible AI in implemented algorithms and various applications.
About the Author
Anna Atefeh Farzindar is a clinical professor at the Computer Science Department, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. Prior to her current position, she served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) for approximately a decade. She earned her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Montreal and her doctorate in automatic summarization of legal documents from Paris-Sorbonne University in 2005. She made significant contributions to the fields of AI, natural language processing, social media analysis, interdisciplinary data science and healthcare predictive machine learning. She is the author and co-author of more than five books in the field of AI.
Farzindar has a strong entrepreneurial background. From her Ph.D. dissertation, she founded NLP Technologies Inc., a tech startup based in Montreal, Canada and held the position of CEO for more than ten years while she was an Adjunct Professor at University of Montreal.
She received Femmessor-Montreal awards, Succeeding with a balanced lifestyle, in the Innovative Technology and Information and Communications Technology category because of her involvement in the arts. Her paintings have been published in a book titled "One Thousand and One Nights," in which the palette of vivid colors and her unique contemporary style revolved around on the place of women in modern society.
About the William H. Hannon Library
The William H. Hannon Library fosters excellence in academic achievement through an array of distinctive services that enable learners to feed their curiosity, experience new worlds, develop their ideas, inform their decision-making, and inspire others. More information can be found at http://library.lmu.edu
For more information about this event, contact the Outreach and Engagement team at the William H. Hannon library via email at library.outreach@lmu.edu or call 310-338-5234.
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