April 22 lecture will explore benefits of extracting insights from multiple data types

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) will host Sriparna Saha, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, as part of its "AI for Social Impact" series. Saha’s talk, titled “Charting New Territories: Multimodal Information Processing in NLP through Deep Learning and Language Modelling,” will discuss how combining data from various sources — such as text, images and videos — can improve real-world applications.

The talk will take place from 2 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, via Zoom.

According to Saha, using data from multiple formats together can improve how we detect hate speech, summarize content, mine complaints, and answer medical questions, especially through multilingual and context-aware approaches.

Currently she is visiting the University of South Carolina as a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Fellow. Saha’s broader research focuses on machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and multiobjective optimization.

This talk is part of the center’s AI for Social Impact Seminar Series, which connects researchers and thought leaders from a variety of fields to explore the diverse applications of AI for a societal benefit. CSRAI promotes high-impact, transformative AI research and development, while encouraging the consideration of social and ethical implications in all such efforts. The center supports a broad range of activities from foundational research to the application of AI to all areas of human endeavor.