This module will allow you to gain an understanding of the practical aspects of human-centred AI including, but not limited to, natural language processing and information retrieval. The idea is to conduct this as part of a group project (of two or three students) starting with the identification of a real-world problem and then solving it step by step using weekly lectures and week-by-week discussion of all the projects. The final output will be a draft research paper that could serve as a basis for a submission to conferences (or co-located workshops) such as ACL, SIGIR. CIKM, ECIR etc.
We will have a number of guests joining us early in the term to present actual research problems that should serve as inspirations for your project. They come from a broad range of disciplines including history, linguistics, computational social science. Projects might also align with annual shared tasks such as TREC and GermEval.
The weekly meetings will be a combination of research seminar and project progress discussion.
Potential topics include:
- Dialogue systems, conversational search, chatbots, ChatGPT
- Fake news detection
- Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG)
- ...
