Dr. Aditya Joshi - Improving LLMs for Varieties of English

LLMs are mind-blowing… for whom? Improving LLMs for varieties of English

We're honoured to have Dr. Aditya Joshi presenting at our upcoming AI event. Seats will be limited, so please register now or join the waitlist before spots vanish.

Speaker Profile: Dr. Aditya Joshi

Dr. Aditya Joshi is a Lecturer of natural language processing (NLP) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. His research publications in NLP have received 2900+ citations. He has co-authored a text book on NLP published by Wiley in 2023. He brings startup, industry and research experience to his current role. Based on his research, he has delivered a TEDx talk in 2018 and performed standup comedy at Sydney Fringe Festival in 2024. Aditya obtained a joint PhD degree from Monash University and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2018.

Event Description:

While LLM reports celebrate superlative performance of LLMs from wide varieties of tasks, their performance is not uniform for different forms of English spoken around the world. These forms include national varieties spoken by first-language (e.g. Australian English) and second-language speakers of English (e.g. Indian English) alike.

The talk will discuss the ongoing research at UNSW on NLP for varieties of English. Specifically, the talk will highlight that there is a problem, provide a LoRA-based solution, and introduce the first-of-its-kind benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm classification for Australian English, Indian English and British English.

Agenda:

• 5:30pm - 6:00pm: Checkin and Networking
• 6:00pm - 7:00pm: Presentation by Dr. Aditya Joshi
• 7:00pm Onwards: Open Discussion and Networking