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Languages are constantly evolving and adapting to the world around them. Most approaches to learning new languages are rigid and don’t account for colloquialisms and outside influence, especially in the case of low-resource languages such as Hindi. The formal Hindi vocabulary taught by most textbooks is hardly going to help… Read More

Languages are constantly evolving and adapting to the world around them. Most approaches to learning new languages are rigid and don’t account for colloquialisms and outside influence, especially in the case of low-resource languages such as Hindi. The formal Hindi vocabulary taught by most textbooks is hardly going to help… Read More

The deadline is approaching to be considered for a scholarship in Vanderbilt University’s fall 2023 Data Science M.S. program. Prospective students must submit their application by January 15 for a scholarship opportunity. The final deadline for all applications for the Data Science M.S. program are due… Read More

Researchers in the Surgical Ethics Program at VUMC are seeking a data science student to collaborate on a project involving natural language processing. The ultimate goal of this project is to improve patient comprehension of the informed consent process and their surgical care. Interested students should reach out to the… Read More

The practice of data science is changing with the rise of powerful, flexible and capable models called transformers. You can solve many different problems using a single pre-trained model, sometimes with no additional training on your data (“zero-shot” solutions). From text, to images, to audio (“textless Natural Language Processing”), you… Read More

Cosmic cataclysmic events such as the collision of black holes create strong gravitational waves which can be detected on Earth. Instruments such as LIGO can detect distortions of space that herald the passing of these gravity waves, but analyzing these signals is a computationally-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Can AI… Read More

With the temperatures dropping this week, and the sun setting earlier, it is clear that Fall is officially here! As the days grow shorter and it starts getting dark earlier, it’s incredibly important to be aware of your surroundings, as well as being mindful of one another, especially when you… Read More

This Spring, the Data Science Institute course on transformers, AI deep learning models, will be open to graduate students and seniors with permission of the instructor. The course, DS-5899 Special Topics in Data Science–Transformers in Theory and Practice, covers transformers models as applied to natural language processing, audio, image, video,… Read More

Negotiation analysis can provide valuable information to scholars who research negotiation and conflict. What conditions help in overcoming differences to reach harmonious terms? What techniques can be used to soften firm positions and reach a mutually beneficial agreement? What role do long-term relationships play in coming to… Read More

Whisper is OpenAI’s new addition to the growing portfolio of open source artificial intelligence (AI) models for speech-to-text and audio processing. Capable of predicting audio text captions, the model leverages intermixed with special tokens which enables the single model to perform tasks such as language identification, phrase-level timestamps,… Read More