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A talk from Fausto Giunchiglia with Title “From language diversity to Bias (what about under-resourced languages)”. In this talk, Fausto provides a general overview of the problem of under-resources languages, and of how we could deal with this problem by uniformly handling the diversity which is intrinsic in any language. Trento April 5th, 2020. (duration: …

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Fausto Giunchiglia explaining Live Schema.Datascientia plenary meeting at the University of Trento, Italy. Dignitaries from around the world attended and presented even during catastrophe conditions in Italy.

A diversity-aware internet, when technology works for people “So far technology has provided us with an increasing access to diversity, but failed short at providing the instruments for individuals and communities to cope with the social challenges that arise with diversity.” Fausto, what is WeNet project about and which is the context it aims to …

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Gábor Bella, head of the Language Diversity Lab of the KnowDive group, was kindly invited by the University of Bayreuth, Germany, to speak at the conference of the project Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies. The talk, entitled Diversity-Aware Resources for Under-Resourced Languages, focused on the problem known as the Digital Language Divide. It examined state-of-the-art …

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Fausto Giunchiglia, will give a keynote talk at the Conference FRUCT, held on Sept. DD, 2020 on the Digital Language Divide and on how DataScientia is trying to address this problem

PYMNTS interviews Dr. Fausto Giunchiglia, project coordinator for  WeNet project. Bigger, better, faster — those are often the guiding principles for innovation, disruption and change in the digital and mobile worlds. What about smarter, and more diverse? Those traits could find their way into more social media and online research interactions — and the payments …

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1. What is the Datascientia plenary meeting? DataScientia plenary meetings are a good opportunity for new and established members alike to meet, get to know each other, discuss the exciting work and achievements done since the last meeting, and also plan ahead for future collaborations and breakthroughs. Multiple categories are proposed to help organize the …

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We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology. SAN FRANCISCO — Last fall, Google unveiled a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology called BERT that changed the way scientists build systems that learn how …

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