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From language diversity to Bias (what about under-resourced languages)

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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A diversity-aware internet, when technology works for people

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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INVITED TALK ON UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES

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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ETHICAL FRAMEWORK OF DIVERSITY IN WENET

Article by Laura Schelenz and Ahmed Hamdy, International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. DIVERSITY is an integral part of our daily lives. We are diverse in our behavior, looks, cultural and social backgrounds, beliefs, religious affiliations, political opinions, and more. While diversity can be beneficial to human interaction, it can also

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When Social Networks Become ‘Diversity-Aware’ Research Platforms

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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The New York Times on AI and Bias

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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