CLS Speaker Series: Grzegorz Chrupala - Today (17/07), 16:00, F1.15, SP 107

[Elia Bruni]

Hi all,

This is a reminder that the next invited speaker is Grzegorz Chrupala (Tilburg University) today, 17/07, at 16:00 in room F1.15, SP 107.

Best,

Elia

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Neural representations of form and meaning in spoken language

The task of learning language in a multisensory setting, with weak and noisy supervision, is of interest to scientists trying to understand the human mind as well as to engineers trying to build smart conversational agents or robots. In this talk I will present work on learning language from visually grounded speech using deep recurrent neural networks, and show that these models are able to extract linguistic knowledge at different levels of abstraction from the input signal. I then describe analytical methods which allow us to better understand the nature and localization or representations emerging in such recurrent neural networks. I will also discuss the challenges inherent in fully unsupervised modeling of spoken language and present recent results on this problem.