Language and Cognition Artificial Intelligence (LACAI) (pronounced: lassi) is a multidisciplinary research lab for computational social science, socio-behavioral computing, and natural language processing. We are part of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration.
News & Events
- September 13th, 2023: Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski gave the talk “Can AI Understand Us?“
- August 2023: AFRL visited LACAI for the ATICA project
- Dec. 2022: Prof. Tomek Strzalkowski has been selected as 2022 ACL fellow for his significant contributions to computational sociolinguistics, metaphor extraction, interactive question answering, and natural language information retrieval.
- July 2022: The paper Towards a Progression-Aware Autonomous Dialogue Agent was presented in the NAACL 2022 venue.
- September 2021: AFRL visited LACAI for the ATICA project
- May 2021: Kick off meeting of LACAI reading group
- July 2020: The paper entitle Generating Ethnographic Models from Communities’ Online Data was presented in the ACL 2020 venue.
- May 2020: The paper Active Defense Against Social Engineering: The Case for Human Language Technology was presented in the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations: Understanding and Management.
- May 2020: The paper Adaptation of a Lexical Organization for Social Engineering Detection and Response Generation was presented in the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations: Understanding and Management.
- May 2020: The paper Email Threat Detection Using Distinct Neural Network Approaches was presented in the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations: Understanding and Management.
- March 2020: The Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications launch a site associated to the COVID-19 outbreak were it can be found different resources for analyzing this disease.
- December 2019: PANACEA project members organize the First International Workshop on Social Threats in Online Conversations (STOC-2020) at LREC 2020.
- September 2019: LACAI lab was established within the Cognitive Science Department at RPI. LACAI is a member of RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration.
LACAI Reading Group (schedule)
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Next on Sep. 27, 2023: Ananya Subburathinam – IMAGEBIND: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All
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Previous talks
2023-09-20 Abraham Sanders – Generative Spoken Dialogue Language Modeling
2023-09-06 Prof. Tomek – Quantum Computing