Often the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in an environment where people speak it. The constant exposure, along with the pressure to communicate, helps you swiftly pick up and practice new vocabulary. But not everyone gets the opportunity to live or study abroad.
A new proposal to the RPI KIP program was approved by KIP review committee in June, 2019 to support CISL research on Using Cognitive Computing for the Manufacturing Control Room of the Future. The new project was proposed by Prof. Wayne Bequette, Wayne Gray, James Malazita, David Mendonca, Rich Radke, and Hui Su.
Brandyn Sigouin, first year CS undergraduate student and Research Assistant for the Cognitive and Immersive Systems Lab, wins an honorable mention for his Poster Presentation on Dialogue Engine for Teaching a Machine in the Computer and/or Computational Science category at the 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium.
2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster and Oral Presentation Winners
CISL Director Hui Su and Staff members david allen and Andrea Wong presented the Rensselaer Mandarin Project this past week during Demo Session 1 of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19).
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and mobile computing, together with the rising popularity of chat and messaging environments, have enabled a boom in the deployment of interactive systems based on conversation and dialogue. This talk explores the design and evaluation of conversational interfaces, and it is focused on design and evaluation methods which address specific challenges of interfaces based on multi-party dialogue. I will show two projects.
Out of 85 research posters from the AIHN community the Rensselaer Mandarin Project received one of six best poster awards at AI Research Week hosted by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, in Cambridge, MA, October 1–5, 2018.
All of the posters from the AI Horizons Colloquium are publicly available to review online.
TROY — To find the powerful ancient manuscript, the student must first meet the mysterious Mrs. Ling — dressed in turquoise and with huge dark eyes that are a bit menacing — in an ornate tea house. And he must complete the Chinese tea ceremony correctly.
