ChatGPT-Why: When, if ever, is synthetic text safe, appropriate, and desirable?, Sensemaking Lectures, GRAILE AI, August 8, 2023

NLP Seminar: On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? 🦜 AI Sweden/RISE Sweden, September 14, 2022.

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of AI, keynote talk at CogSci 2022: Cognitive Diversity, Toronto, July 29, 2022. [Slides]

Plenary Panel: The Place of Linguistics and Symbolic Structures, NAACL 2022, July 12, 2022.

On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? 🦜, EAI Distinguish Lecturer Series, Northeastern University, September 29, 2021.

Meaning Making with Artificial Interlocutors and Risks of Language Technology, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, August 26, 2021.

On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big? 🦜 with panelists Dr Anjali Mazumder, Dr Zachary Kenton and Professor Ann Copestake, The Alan Turing Institute, July 8, 2021.

Linguistics, Living Its Best Life, Future of Linguistics Workshop 2/4, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, January 6, 2021.

Societal impacts of NLP: How and when to integrate them into your research (and how to make time for that), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 Student Research Workshop, December 7, 2020.

Natural Language Processing with Language in Focus, Abralin ao Vivo, November 25, 2020. [Slides]

Panel: Ethics Panel: Publishing in an era of Responsible AI: How can NLP be proactive? Considerations and Implications, EMNLP 2020, with Mona Diab (moderator) Rosie Campbell, Allan Dafoe, Pascale Fung, Meg Mitchell, and Saif Mohammad. November 17, 2020.

A Typology of Ethical Risks in Language Technology with an Eye Towards Where Transparent Documentation Can Help

The 2020 Singapore Symposium on Natural Language Processing, December 11, 2020. slides

UMD CLIP colloquium, October 7, 2020. slides

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, September 16, 2020. video

AAAS 2020, Seattle WA. February 14, 2020. Panel title: Ethical risks of voice technology: A sociolinguistic perspective. slides

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Ethics, Technology, University of Cambridge, March 25, 2019. slides video

Blog post summarizing the event

Panel: How much should conversational AI developers know about ML and linguistics?, L3-AI 2020, with Anna Rogers, Thomas Wolf, and Vladimir Vlasov, June 18, 2020.

Making Stakeholder Impacts Visible in the Evaluation Cycle: Towards Fairness-Integrated Shared Tasks and Evaluation Metrics. Machine Learning Competitions for All CiML 2019 Workshop at NeurIPS 2019. Vancouver, CA. December 13, 2019. Joint work with Hal Daumé III, Bernease Herman, Brandeis Marshall. [video; starts at 0:56:00]

Grammar Engineering for Linguistic Hypothesis Testing, Linguistic Typology, and Language Documentation, LIFT 2019: Journées scientifiques “Linguistique informatique, formelle & de terrain”, Orléans, November 28, 2019.

Panel Discussion: AI for Social Good, Bias and Ethics, at West Coast NLP (WeCNLP) 2019, September 6, 2019.

How do we get to general purpose NLU?, at Google, Mountain View, September 5, 2019.

The Grammar Matrix and AGGREGATION: Knowledge-Rich NLP for Endangered and Low Resource Languages, at The First Workshop on Typology for Polyglot NLP, ACL 2019, Firenze, Italia, August 1, 2019.

From Linguist in NLP to Humanist in AI: How a Linguist's Perspective on Data Has Informed My Work on Ethics in NLP, at WiNLP 2019, ACL 2019, Firenze, Italia, July 28, 2019. [video]

English isn't generic for language, despite what NLP papers might lead you to believe, at the 2019 Symposium and Data Science and Statistics, Bellevue WA, May 30, 2019.

Making Computers Help Linguists: Grammar Engineering for Linguistic Hypothesis Testing, Linguistic Typology, and Language Documentation, at Arizona Linguistics Circle 12, October 14, 2018.

Balancing Teaching and Research (and Life), at UW Linguistics TA Orientation, September 25, 2015 and September 21, 2018.

How to make ends meet: Why general purpose NLU needs linguistics, invited talk at the Workshop on Relevance of Linguistic Structure in Neural Architectures for NLP (RELNLP) at ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 19, 2018.

Panel Discussion: "AI in the Public Sector: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion?", Taskar Memorial Event, UW CSE, March 1, 2018

The Role of Linguistic Structure in Computer Natural Language Understanding, talk at Perceptrons and Syntactic Structures at 60 (PSS@60), LSA, January 2018.

Discussion: Natural Language Processing and linguistics Perceptrons and Syntactic Structures at 60 (PSS@60), LSA, January 2018, with Sharon Goldwater and Jason Eisner.

Ethics in NLP seminar recap, talk at UW Treehouse (compling lab). April and October 2017.

The Mathematics of Language, talk at UW's Monthly Math Hour. March, 2017. (Video also available; Handout)

Partially Automated Grammar Engineering and Chintang. Seminar für Allgemaine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Zürich, Switzerland. July, 2014.

Grammar Engineering for Language Documentation. Aarhus University SEMLING Guest Lecture, June 17, 2014.

Computing Meaning: What's Semantics Got to Do with It?. CLSP Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, September 10, 2013 and CLUNCH, University of Pennsylvania, September 11, 2013.

Encoding and Deploying Linguistic Knowledge: The Grammar Matrix and AGGREGATION Projects. Language Technology Group research seminar, University of Oslo. February 5, 2013.

Multilingual Grammar Engineering with the LinGO Grammar Matrix. Poster presented at the LSA organized session 'Tech Tools: Increasing Technology Training in the Curriculum of Graduate Students in Linguistics'. 86th Annual Meeting of the LSA, Portland OR, January 8, 2012.

From Database to Treebank: Enhancing a Hypertext Grammar with Grammar Engineering. Conference on Electronic Grammaticography, University of Hawai'i, February 13, 2011.

Grammar Engineering Complements Language Documentation (poster). 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawai'i, February 11, 2011.

Computational Linguistics in Support of Linguistic Theory. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2009. With D. Terrence Langendoen.

Computation in Computational Linguistics. Intel Corporation. August 24, 2007.

The State of the Art in Computational Linguistics: How to get at information encoded in natural language. Amazon Developer's Conference. January 17, 2007. [Slides] [References]

Grammar Engineering for Crosslinguistic Hypothesis Testing. University of Washington, Department of Linguistics. October 13, 2006. [Slides for viewing online] [Slides for printing] [References]

Crosslinguistic Resources for the Rapid Development of Precision Computational Grammars. University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium. May 17, 2005. Webcast of talk is archived online.

Semantic Constraints on Syntactic NPs in Grammar Engineering. With Scott Drellishak, Bill McNeill, and Laurie Poulson. January 7, 2005. LSA, Oakland CA. [handout] [handout appendix]

Implementing a Syntax-Morphology Interface for Athabaskan. With Jeff Good. January 7, 2005. LSA, Oakland CA.

The Lexicon in the LinGO Grammar Matrix: Cross-linguistic Hypotheses about Words. University of Washington. February 24, 2004.

Implemented Grammars for the Rest of the World: The Challenge of Slave. With Jeff Good. January 7, 2005. SSILA, Oakland CA.

On the Syntax-Socio Interface: Implications of Sociolinguistic Variation for Competence Grammar. Georgetown University. November 21, 2003.

Grammar Checking in the Arboretum: Finding and Curing Trees. Microsoft/University of Washington Symposium. October 24, 2003.