Departmental Seminar on Using Natural Language Generation (NLG) to Support Patients
| Dates: | 16 October 2024 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Department of Computer Science |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Prof. Ehud Reiter |
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It is essential that patients do a better job of looking after themselves, otherwise the healthcare system may collapse. I will describe several past and current projects at Aberdeen related to this topic, including encouraging healthier lifecycles, helping patients manage chronic illness at home, and explaining medical information to support decision making and reduce stress. I will discuss common challenges (such as patient diversity) and also the role of large language models such as GPT, which have huge potential to help patients, but also have many safety-related problems (such as hallucinations and other inappropriate responses) which need to be addressed.
Speaker
Prof. Ehud Reiter
Role: Professor of Computing Science
Organisation: University of Aberdeen
Biography: Ehud Reiter is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen, and was formerly Chief Scientist of Arria NLG (a spinout he cofounded). He has been working on Natural Language Generation for 35 years, and in recent years has focused on evaluation of language generation; he also has a longstanding interest in healthcare applications. He is one of the most cited and respected researchers in NLG, and his awards include an INLG Test of Time award for his work on data-to-text. He writes a widely read blog on NLG and evaluation (ehudreiter.com), and has written a book on NLG which will be published in November 2024.
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Kilburn_TH 1.3
Kilburn Building
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