As we learned during our interview with Professors Afonso S. Bandeira, Joan Bruna, and Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CDS will host the new Math & Data Group seminars (MaD) this Spring. Today, we are pleased to announce that we will also host the expanded ‘NLP and Text-As-Data’ speaker series at our swanky fifth avenue facilities.
Initially focused on text analysis within the social sciences, Professor Arthur Spirling’s Text-As-Data series has not only expanded to formally include Natural Language Processing within its exciting repertoire, but also welcomed a new co-organizer, Professor Sam Bowman.
The expanded series reflects the research areas of their organizers: Bowman’s hails from a strong background in Computer Science, Linguistics, and NLP, while Spirling’s work largely focuses on applying text analysis to answer questions in political science.
“We are delighted to be expanding the mission of this Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment series, generously funded by the Methods Working Group. While “Text as Data” has built a community around its social science focus, the addition of NLP speakers will encourage new collaborations across disciplinary boundaries—which is precisely what the Center for Data Science is all about. In tandem with the Math and Data speaker series organized by Profs. Bandeira, Bruna and Fernandez-Granda, our new initiative adds to NYU’s reputation as one of the most exciting places for Data Science in the world,” Spirling explained.
The MaD seminars meet every Thursday starting 26 January from 2:30pm – 3:30pm in Auditorium 150 at CDS.
The NLP and Text-as-Data series meet every Thursday starting 2 February from 4pm – 5:30pm on the 7th floor at CDS.