LatinX in AI Social at EMNLP 2022

LatinX in AI (LXAI) is hosting a virtual social to connect LatinX identifying AI Researchers and Engineers around the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing taking place December 7th - 11th, 2022.

The LatinX in AI Social will be hosted virtually on December 8, 2022 at 9 AM CST.

Mission

This affinity social is aimed at LatinX individuals working on or interested in NLP with a goal to increase the visibility of researchers of LatinX origin in a field that has been dominated by countries such as China, USA and Germany.

Those already working on NLP will have the opportunity to connect with fellow LatinX and make their own work known, while those new to the field will benefit from the scientific exchange, guidance and advice of researchers with their same background. Participants will be able to engage in discussions about NLP (formal and informal) and to share their thoughts on how to increase the presence of LatinX in NLP.

Diversity and inclusion are key to achieve better and more creative science. By promoting this event, EMNLP will not only advocate for an underrepresented community, it will also help to promote the development of technologies and language resources that take into account the different languages ​​that exist in Latin America.

 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • Hiram Calvo obtained the Master of Sciences Degree of Computing Science and Engineering at the National Autonomous University (UNAM), then he obtained a PhD from the Center for Computing Research (CIC) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. His thesis was on the Spanish syntax analyzer DILUCT. He was awarded the Lázaro Cárdenas Prize handed by the president of Mexico in 2006. Calvo did a post-doctoral stay at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan from 2008 to 2010. His research interests are Computational Linguistics, Lexical Semantics, Machine Learning and Cognitive Sciences. He is the author of more than 100 publications in the area. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level II. Currently, he is a full-time Research Professor and Headmaster of CIC-IPN, and President of the Mexican Association for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA).

  • Estevam Hruschka is the Lab Director and Staff Research Scientist at Megagon Labs where he leads the efforts to advance state-of-the-art research in AI, ML, NLP, knowledge representation and data management and to build technologies that impact the world through online services. Prior to Megagon Labs, he was co-leader of NELL (the Never-Ending Language Learning System - http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu). Also, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (Brazil), Fellow of the Brazilian National Research Agency, Young Research Fellow of the Sao Paulo State Research Agency (in Brazil), Google Research Award recipient (for Latin America) and Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). His work focuses on both theoretical and applied problems and he is mainly interested in how to build intelligent computer systems capable of deeply understanding Natural Language in a Never-Ending Learning approach. Between 2017 and 2020, he was with Amazon in Seattle, WA, where he helped to build the Alexa Search Team from scratch.

  • Dr. Delia Irazú Hernández Farias is a Fellow Researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics (INAOE) in Puebla, Mexico. She obtained a Ph. D. Degree in Informatics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and the University of Turin, Italy.

 ORGANIZERS

 

Social Chairs

  • Diana Galván Sosa, Tohoku University

  • María Lourdes Martínez, Villaseñor Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Panamericana

  • Vinicius Carida, Head of Itaú Unibanco

  • Tania Aglaé Ramírez Del Real, CONACyT

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