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+lecturer: "Rob van der Goot from IT University of Copenhagen"
+title: "Robustness in NLP: challenges and opportunities"
+type: seminar
+date: 2024-10-09
+duration: "2 hours"
+venue: "Gothenburg and online"
+slides: "Rob van der Goot 9.10.2024.pdf"
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+Abstract: This talk will cover a variety of setups and approaches to robustness in NLP. I will start by giving an overview (including limitations) of the task of lexical normalization: the conversion of social media data to its canonical form. Next, I will discuss the challenges in using multi-task learning to improve performance in low-resource setups. Finally, I will unveil remaining challenges in the first steps of the NLP pipeline: language identification and tokenization (i.e. word segmentation): are these tasks really solved?, and if no: what are still the open challenges that we should focus on in the future?