Krzysztof Borowski

Learning about effective conversation design, or how to climb the tree and not have it climb back at you (that's a quote from a GU professor, no credit is mine), is the art of "What could possibly go wrong?" when language and technology intersect. #CxD

My favorite comment today. 💡 “It’s super weird when you start thinking about where language-knowledge ends and world-knowledge begins” by Ellen Lucast. #language #knowledge #ontology #AI #GPT3 #NLProc

I'm looking to hire a contractor PM and three contractor linguists for three months (April 1--June 30) as part of a new initiative on the fairness of large-scale language technologies.

Designing my first conversation with a chatbot. . . . The linguist in me thinks: Don't forget about all the possible variations! The user in me thinks: Don't overdo it. Language is the tool, not the end goal. #CxD #chatbots #language #conversation #design #dialogue #flow #bots

As an interface, voice gained another category of users so traditional human-to-human assumptions no longer apply. Designing conversational AI and learning to communicate with machines becomes similar to acquiring a new language. And it sucks to fail at language. #Voice #AI #UX

This is interesting. Failure to communicate with voice technology unsettles humans whose voice communication skills have never been evaluated to that extent before. #CxD #ConversationalAI #VoiceFirst washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Back in the late 1990s when I was in elementary school, we'd get a chance to spend an hour or two on those old, DOS-based computers. I would type up questions for the computer and hit Enter. No answers were given. Now that's possible and it's called conversation design. #CxD

Learning about effective conversation design, or how to climb the tree and not have it climb back at you (that's a quote from a GU professor, no credit is mine), is the art of "What could possibly go wrong?" when language and technology intersect. #CxD

“Everybody that has ever written a story knows this: your first draft sucks.” It took me an incredibly long time to realize that good texts aren’t written once, but rewritten many times. And that the first draft is just that: they first draft. #CxD medium.com/conversational…

Everybody needs a medium. Now I broke the Medium.

@catherinebuk Great (and often forgotten) point!

📅 Happening today: 2021 Amazon WiNLP Virtual Fireside Chat Panelists: Anna Currey Rashmi Gangadharaiah Maria Nadejde Moderator: Amber Hathaway Register here: buff.ly/3brfXun #NLP #NLProc #Amazon #WiNLP2021

The cited example of a nurse is a typical culprit. I’m also thinking about languages in which some professions/occupations lack equivalents for another gender, or those equivalents are very recent without wider adoption. When social need outpaces language, problems will happen.

Machine translation is hard. Gender bias in machine translation is even harder. ⁦@gedinu⁩ “One clear area of bias in machine translation… is gender stereotyping when translating from a language with ungendered nouns to one with gendered nouns.”⁩ amazon.science/blog/emnlp-mit…

🚨🚨🚨 The FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is hiring a postdoc whose work focuses on the societal implications of AI&ML! 📢📢📢 Does that sound like you? Come join us! Group: microsoft.com/en-us/research… Job Ad: careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1200… Happy to answer any questions you may have!

#AI training costs are declining 63% every year. Every year!

🗣️ Actions on Google now supports the <lang> tag. Use it to change the spoken languages throughout your response. Learn more here → goo.gle/3BAbY9r

Speech Recognition has progressed tremendously over the last few years, but what key problems are still being tackled in the industry today? Join our Chief Scientist for a discussion on this topic tomorrow morning! bit.ly/3waphfL #VoiceFirst #VoiceUI

After years of nomadic life, digital nomads finally made it to the Martian-Webster dictionary. merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/…

📅 Happening today: NLP at Microsoft Research: "Ask Me Anything" with Alexandra Olteanu (Microsoft Research Montreal) and Hanna Wallach (Microsoft Research NYC) Register here: buff.ly/2ZHa7Cx #NLP #NLProc #Microsoft #MSFT #WiNLP2021