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Bringing Data Science to the Speakers of Every Language

Published on Oct 07, 20142676 Views

This presentation will cover how natural language processing and distributed human computing help improve the lives of speakers of all the world's languages, in applications including education, disas

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Bringing Data Science to the Speakers of Every Language00:00
About me: technology and global development00:17
Recommendations for language processing for social good01:29
How many languages are in the connected world? - 102:06
How many languages are in the connected world? - 202:50
How many languages are in the connected world? - 302:59
How many languages are in the connected world? - 403:11
How many languages are in the connected world? - 503:56
How many languages are in the connected world? - 604:07
How many languages are in the connected world? - 704:54
How many languages are in the connected world? - 805:06
How many languages are in the connected world? - 905:37
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1005:41
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1105:45
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1206:15
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1306:25
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1406:35
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1506:45
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1607:58
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1708:20
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1808:40
How many languages are in the connected world? - 1908:54
How many languages are in the connected world? - 2009:26
An earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 201010:00
Messages start streaming in - 110:27
Messages start streaming in - 211:00
Mission 463611:12
Global collaboration11:52
Where is "Okap"? - 112:20
Where is "Okap"? - 213:16
Where is "Okap"? - 313:23
Local knowledge 14:28
How do we automate processing the world’s data? 15:21
English15:37
Haitian Krèyol - 116:14
Haitian Krèyol - 216:31
The extent of the subword variation17:45
Chichewa18:57
Modeling the variation gives accurate results19:17
Comparison with English20:21
Taking it to the world21:42
The benefits of understanding everyone21:44
Reports of ‘strange new illnesses’ pre-date official records22:20
…but the reports are in 1000s of languages 23:10
Crowdsourcing, big data, and expert analysts24:04
Digital Disease Discovery24:22
The impact of scalable monitoring - 125:53
The impact of scalable monitoring - 227:27
The impact of scalable monitoring - 329:58
Idibon’s current work31:30
Recommendations for language processing for social good33:11
Thank you34:07