Women in ML & DS Tech Talks #5

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AGENDA
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6:00 – 6:30 Networking along with food & drinks

6:30 – 6:40 Introduction

6:40 – 7:10 Elizabeth Clark – Collaborative Story Generation: Modeling, design, and evaluation considerations for machine-in-the-loop creative writing systems

Machine-in-the-loop creative writing systems offer suggestions to writers with the goal of sparking creativity and alleviating writer’s block. In this talk, we’ll see what these systems can look like, how we can build natural language generation models to perform these types of tasks, and how we can evaluate a system’s performance. In particular, I’ll focus on building systems to support collaborative short story writing.

7:10 – 7:40 Andrea Gagliano – When ML Gets Creative

Many Getty Images customers are creatives. What does it look like to train machine learning models that support their creative process? We’ll go through lessons learned of building models into tools and products that assist in creative tasks.

7:40 – 8:00 More networking

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SPEAKERS INFO
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Elizabeth is a 5th year PhD student in natural language processing at the University of Washington. She works on natural language generation and evaluation, with a focus on human-computer collaborative systems for completing creative tasks. She’s currently working on collaborative story generation, and while she wants to build models that can generate helpful suggestions for people as they write, she secretly enjoys reading the bad stories that get generated when the models make mistakes.

Andrea is Head of Data Science at Getty Images where her team is responsible for building machine learning models for visual search. Andrea keeps the user at the heart of her approach to data science to inspire, encourage, and support the end creative experience. Andrea studied at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and Center for New Media where her graduate research investigated machine learning and art.

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Thank Getty Images for hosting!
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CODE OF CONDUCT
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