Online Participation: Ed Hovy and Michelle Lamblin - Meetup @ALTA 2023

Please join us for a special NLP Meetup @ALTA 2023 at Melbourne Connect.

We have 2 wonderful speakers Ed Hovy and Michelle Lamblin.

Eduard Hovy (he/him)
Ed Hovy is the Executive Director of Melbourne Connect (a research and tech transfer centre at the University of Melbourne), a professor at the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems, and a research professor at the Language Technologies Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2020–21 he served as Program Manager in DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O), where he managed programs in Natural Language Technology and Data Analytics. Dr. Hovy completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987 and was awarded honorary doctorates from the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid in 2013 and the University of Antwerp in 2015. He is one of the initial 17 Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and is also a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Dr. Hovy’s research focuses on computational semantics of language and addresses various areas in Natural Language Processing and Data Analytics, including in-depth machine reading of text, information extraction, automated text summarization, question answering, the semi-automated construction of large lexicons and ontologies, and machine translation. In mid-2023 his Google h-index was 102, with about 50,000 citations. Dr. Hovy is the author or co-editor of eight books and around 400 technical articles and is a popular invited speaker. He regularly co-taught Ph.D.-level courses and has served on Advisory and Review Boards for both research institutes and funding organizations in Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Ireland, Singapore, and the USA.

From 2003 to 2015 he was co-Director of Research for the Department of Homeland Security’s Center of Excellence for Command, Control, and Interoperability Data Analytics, a distributed cooperation of 17 universities. In 2001 Dr. Hovy served as President of the international Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), in 2001–03 as President of the International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT), and in 2010–11 as President of the Digital Government Society (DGS).

Michelle Lamblin (she/her)
Michelle is the program manager of the suicide prevention research unit at Orygen, and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne. The suicide prevention team, led by Associate Professor Jo Robinson, are recognised as national and international leaders in youth suicide prevention research. The team conducts research that examines rates and risk factors for suicide and suicidal behaviour, and tests novel interventions that reflect the broad spectrum of suicide prevention approaches, comprising universal, selective and indicated interventions.

Michelle manages a superstar team of more than 20 early career researchers, and the day-to-day operations of multiple research projects across educational, community, clinical and social media settings. Her strengths are in stakeholder engagement and the translation of research evidence to practice and policy outcomes, having provided evaluation and advice to agencies such as the NSW Department of Education and the Victorian Department of Health, and leading the implementation of real-time social media support campaigns to communities impacted by youth suicide across Australia and New Zealand.

Michelle is completing her PhD in social neuroscience at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. Her thesis explores the relationship between social networks and adolescent brain development, utilising tools from social network analysis, behavioural game theory and multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She has extensive experience in both clinical and neuro-imaging research, and a particular interest in individual differences that may confer either risk or resilience to various social and mental health outcomes in young people.

Schedule of Events

• 5:15 Ed Hovy
• 6:00 Michelle Lamblin

Information

All NLP Meetups are free events. This Meetup is also part of the events at the Australasian Language Technology Association. Feel free to register for ALTA 2023 here: https://alta2023.alta.asn.au/registration/