Natural Language Processing and Understanding in Action- Applications in Misinformation Detection, Earth Sciences and Space

Outline

Natural language processing and understanding (NLP/U) deal with extracting meaningful information and insights from text documents, as well as enabling machines to understand such content in depth, similar to how a human would read a document. To name but a few, NLP/U tools include entity detection, relation extraction, sentiment analysis, text classification or topic modeling, and have successfully found applications in many sectors including health, education, legal, security, defense, insurance, and finance, amongst others. In this seminar, we highlight three domains of application for NLP/U technologies of particular novelty and impact potential: earth sciences, misinformation detection, and science and engineering in Space and use them as vehicles to illustrate the most recent advances in state-of-the-art NLP/U technologies. Among others, we will show how language can be used to automatically identify misinforming text and how to help fact checkers to deal with misinformation, how to extract relevant information from scientific bibliography, assisting scientists in their daily research work, and how to support space agencies like ESA to enforce quality protocols and design the interplanetary discovery missions of the future.

Assessment Method

Attendance and assignment.

Timetable

• 22 April, 15:00-18:00

Lecture Theatre

• A-5001

Tuition Language

English.