Next NLP Seminar will take place on Thursday, 27th March, at 2 p.m., in room A008 Jean Legras.
Casey Kennington, Boise State University
Research suggests that cognition is not separable from emotion, which has implications for computational models of language: they are trained on text (and in some cases images), but how is emotion represented? In my talk, we explore 4E cognition, where emotion fits, how we can model emotion, and how emotion and language can come together in computational models.
On the occasion of the Master TAL graduation ceremony, Casey Kennington agreed to be the class sponsor. Casey is an alumnus of the Master’s program who is now an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University. He is head of the Speech, Language and Interactive Machines group at Boise State University and active in the SIGDIAL community. He principally does research in interactive spoken dialogue systems, semantics, human-robot interaction, and language acquisition.
