Human Language Technologyand where it’s headed
Jason Baldridge Lillian Lee Philip Resnik
@jasonbaldridge (Google me) @psresnik
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
the promise
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Why is this man smiling?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/482440a.html
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The Turing test: AI ≤ language use
http://bittersweetsage.blogspot.com/2010/01/comic-converse-turing-test.html
Turing predicted we’d be close in about 50 years.
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http://www.openamplify.com/
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Operators are standing by
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lo, the field of sentiment analysis
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzm6pvHPSGo]
It is the year 2000, but where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars.
Why isn’t this man smiling?
Instead we got 140 characters.[http://www.foundersfund.com/the-future]
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we take language-technology successes for granted
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Crowding out spam
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Machine translation: it’s what’s for news
Slide from Kevin Knight, ISI
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Siri
http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html
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Watson
Ken Jennings, left, and Brad Rutter, right, pose after the episode of "Jeopardy!" that aired Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, when Watson, the IBM computer, beat the veteran champs with a total of $77, 147 over two exhibition matches. Credit: AP Photo/Jeopardy Productions Inc.
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Why is this man smiling?
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what are realistic expectations?
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All your meaning are belong to us (?)
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ALPAC yer bags
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It’s cold out there, after the hype
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The Hype Cycle (Gartner)
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The Hype Cycle (Gartner, 2011)
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the challenges
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Child’s play?
What’s a difficult choice you’ve faced?
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Clean my room or listen to my mother sing my least favorite song over and over.
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What does this sentence mean?
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I saw her duck with a telescope.
verb noun
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Ambiguity is pervasive
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an “are” (100 m2)
another “are”
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What about this?
我不会说中文的,我只是生成这个例子中,使用谷歌翻译 (所以不要怪我,如果这样做没有任何意义).
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the game-changers:
• data-driven approaches
• models of language
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You’ve come a long way, NLP
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Text is pervasive
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Metadata is plentiful
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Learning and structure
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Watson architecture
[http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/01/jeopardy-ibm-and-wolframalpha]/
All knowledge is extracted from pre-stored databases and free form text.
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Extraction approach: paraphrase learning
Is Snooki on stork watch?
[All 8 results are from March 2011 or earlier]
Ex: Barzilay and Lee, NAACL 2003surveys: http://www.jair.org/media/2985/live-2985-5001-jair.pdf, http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1162/coli_a_00002
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Extraction approach: paraphrase learning
Snooki and fiancé Jionni LaValle are expecting their first child together
Angie Harmon on Stork WatchBy Marcus Errico
Angie Harmon's going from assistant district attorneying to diaper duty.The former Law & Order legal dish is expecting her first child with football stud hubby Jason Sehorn, her publicist confirmed Tuesday.
Bowie & Iman On Stork WatchBY GEORGE RUSH DAILY NEWS COLUMNISTMonday, February 14, 2000
Rock legend David Bowie and supermodel Iman said yesterday they're expecting their first child
Is Snooki on stork watch?
Snooki?!Tuesday, March 13, 2012
onward: Where we’re headed
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Meme me up http://memetracker.org/
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The pulse of the media
J. Leskovec, L. Backstrom, J. Kleinberg. Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle. ACM SIGKDD Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009.
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Why is this man smiling?
C. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al. ACL 2012
Beyond situational effects, phrasing also affects memorability:
• memorable movie quotes (in aggregate) are unusual word choices built on a scaffolding of common part-of-speech patterns ‣shown via language models
• carries over to ad slogans
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Using social interaction: Twitter sentiment
Obama is making the repubs look silly and petty
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Papers: Speriosu et al. 2011; Tan et al. KDD 2011
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Social interaction: who has the lead?Communicative behaviors are “patterned and coordinated, like a dance” [Niederhoffer and Pennebaker, ‘02]
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Those with less power tend to immediately match the function-word choices of those with less power. [C. Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al. WWW 2012]
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Moderator asked what?
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What does a word mean?
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mountainbeach
wine barbecue
Where’s a word on Earth?
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cool
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kewl
Ur so kool so I know ur in Houston
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Automatic geolocation
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Mapping conflicts
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Temporality of words, by hour http://www.tweetolife.com/hour/
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Temporality of expressions, by day: http://www.google.com/trends
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He says, she says http://www.tweetolife.com/gender/
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public service announcement
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Mistakes are consequential
http://davidrothman.net/2009/09/02/all-your-healthbase-are-belong-to-us-want-em-back/
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Being right can be consequential too
Narayanan et al 2012: “On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification”Tuesday, March 13, 2012
wrapping up
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Some final text (finally)
• Things are moving fast
• learning
• scalability, both data and computation
• depth of representation
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Why is this man smiling?
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Even this is a difficult decision.... I do not know what the right answer is, but I think [different] approaches should be tried.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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