CLSP Spring Seminar Series: Craig Greenberg

Description

Craig Greenberg, a mathematician at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will present a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar titled "Measurement and Evaluation of Human Language Technology."

Abstract:

The successes of speech and language technology research in recent years has led to the deployment of human language technology (HLT) in an increasing number of high-visibility, high-consequence applications. Well-established approaches to evaluating HLT have been recognized as insufficient for understanding the performance and impacts these technologies have when moved from the lab to the real world, and this need has given new prominence to the importance of measurement in HLT and other machine learning enabled technologies. This talk will review the foundations of metrology (the science of measurement), how metrology has been and can be further applied to measuring HLT, and current challenges in measuring HLT in practice.