{"id":5,"date":"2024-07-02T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp\/labo\/lml\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T01:25:31","slug":"language-media-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ist.hokudai.ac.jp\/labo\/lml\/","title":{"rendered":"About Language Media Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A commitment to natural and safe language processing<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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LML is a pioneering AI lab that merges creativity and functionality to redefine how machines understand and use natural languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Multidisciplinary Approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Our research goes beyond classical NLP by combining findings from various disciplines with latest and historical achievements in the field of AI. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dialog Processing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Naturalness of a dialog is approached on different levels, not only semantic but also pragmatic. From prosodic features to user modeling and remembering, we cover a wide scope of dialog-related topics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Language and Knowledge Acquisition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From common sense to legal expertise, we study how machines should effectively acquire knowledge. By experimenting with semantic primes we look for closer-to-human ways of perceiving and learning the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Affective Computing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Machines understanding our emotions are important for our everyday life use of AI, as well as for other topics as ethics, language acquisition or humor processing. Our ML-ASK library is widely used since 2009.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Moral Machines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Since 2005 we have been working on various ethical decision making algorithms utilizing Wisdom of Crowd and approaches derived from classic schools of ethics as utilitarianism or deontology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Humorous and Figurative Language<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Creativity in language use is often problematic for machines. We work on both creating and understanding of novel metaphorical, poetic and humorous utterances. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Real-World Simulations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As the benchmarks do not mirror always changing contexts, we have been proposing solutions for home environments and robots to ensure that actions are safe and fair to all users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lab Policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join our lab to follow your passions in a friendly atmosphere. Become a member of our multidisciplinary and multicultural group. Choose your topic and learn how to conduct research by practicing critical thinking. Bilingual supervision and study abroad support are provided. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What we provide<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Progress and Paper Club seminars<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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  • A cosy workplace with access to GPU servers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Where our alumni work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    Universities<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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    \u2022 MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Hokkaido University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Jagiellonian University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Rakuten Institute of Technology (New York)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Fujitsu Laboratories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Otaru University of Commerce<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Iwate Prefectural University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Kitami Institute of Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Hokkai-Gakuen University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Aoyama Gakuin University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Fukuoka University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Utsunomiya Kyowa University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 University of Eastern Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Asahikawa National College of Technology<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Companies<\/h3><\/div><\/div>
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    \u2022 DeepMind<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Mitsubishi Electric<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 HTB (Hokkaido Television Broadcasting)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 TvH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Gurunavi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Indeed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Hitachi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Techmo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Panasonic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Sony<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Toshiba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 Nissan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u2022 IBM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    \u201cTo imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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