SPECIAL LECTURE

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Yonatan Belinkov

Yonatan Belinkov is a postdoc at Harvard SEAS, where he works on natural language processing, focusing on language representations in neural networks. Event details.

Friday, January 31, 11:10 – 12:00 pm, 210 South Hall

INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR

Genres of Library Service: Economics, Ideology, Technology, etc.

Each library is unique, of course, but there are different types and, historically, there have been large differences between countries, as well as major changes over time. Michael Buckland will review issues important for the interpretation and explanation of differences. Event details.

Friday, January 31, 3:10 – 5:00 pm, 107 South Hall

CTSP LECTURE

“The perverse absent-presence”: Disability and the perception of archival representation

Gracen Brilmyer, a 2016 CTSP fellow and MIMS 2016 alum, presents research for their doctoral dissertation. Event details.

Tuesday, February 4, 4:10 – 5:30 pm, 202 South Hall

SPECIAL LECTURE

Natural Language Processing Seminar: Maarten Sap

Maarten Sap is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington. He is interested in natural language processing for social understanding. Specifically, how can NLP help us understand human behavior, and how can we endow NLP systems with social intelligence, social commonsense or theory of mind. Event details.

Friday, February 7, 11:10 – 12:00 pm, 210 South Hall

INFORMATION ACCESS SEMINAR

The US Census and Social Media Archiving

Catherine Marshall will discuss use, participation, and confidentiality issues entailed by social media archiving through the lens of recent study results, coupled with examples drawn from contemporaneous reactions and responses to the 1940 US Census. Event details.

Friday, February 7, 3:10 – 5:00 pm, 107 South Hall

I School Meet Up in San Francisco

Join our host, alumna Sharon Lin, Director of Creator Analytics at Twitch, for a fun Berkeley School of Information meet-up and happy hour.

Meet new friends and mingle with old. We will have great conversation, snacks, and a hosted bar (beer, wine, and soft drinks).

All students and alumni from the UC Berkeley School of Information are invited and guests are welcome to attend — we hope to see you there.

Register today — the early bird deadline is 1/31!

Wednesday, February 5, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Microsoft Reactor, 680 Folsom St., Suite 145, San Francisco.

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