Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that this will start at 11:30 AM (Pacific), 18:30 UTC.
Kindly, Sarah R. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Sarah R <srodl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November > 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMENRAkeHnQ > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. > And, you can watch our past research showcases here > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2017> > . > > This month's presentation: > > Conversation Corpora, Emotional Robots, and Battles with BiasBy *Lucas > Dixon (Google/Jigsaw)*I'll talk about interesting experimental setups for > doing large-scale analysis of conversations in Wikipedia, and what it even > means to grapple with the concept of conversation when one is talking about > revisions on talk pages. I'll also describe challenges with having good > conversations at scale, some of the dreams one might have for AI in the > space, and I'll dig into measuring unintended bias in machine learning and > what one can do to make ML more inclusive. This talk will cover work from > the WikiDetox <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox> project as > well as ongoing research on the nature and impact of harassment in > Wikipedia discussion spaces > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Study_of_harassment_and_its_impact> > – > part of a collaboration between Jigsaw, Cornell University, and the > Wikimedia Foundation. The ML model training code, datasets, and the > supporting tooling developed as part of this project are openly available. > > > Many kind regards, > > Sarah R. Rodlund > Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation > srodl...@wikimedia.org > > > > -- Sarah R. Rodlund Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation srodl...@wikimedia.org *“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_>* _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
