Transformers
DSSG 2023: AI Storybook project aims to create AI tool to help parents teach their children to read with dialogic questioning
Jun. 13, 2023—Seeking to uncover novel methods for fostering meaningful interactions between parents and children during reading sessions, a team of researchers in the Data Science Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is currently engaged in an innovative project called AI Storybook. Led by Postdoctoral Fellow, Abigail Petulante, the project aims to develop an AI-based...
Announcing DSSG 2023 Projects: Fostering Classroom Tools and Assistive Technology
Jun. 6, 2023—The Data Science Institute is excited to announce the projects for this summer’s Data Science for Social Good 2023. This year, we are placing a special focus on developing tools for classrooms and assistive technology projects to cater to the needs of neurodivergent individuals. Classroom Projects: English as a Second Language: Caroline Miller, an ESL...
Data Science Institute makes strides in project aiming to create an AI Assistant for acquiring low-resource languages like Hindi
May. 2, 2023—The Vanderbilt University Data Science Institute made progress this semester on a research project to bridge the gap in language acquisition of low-resource languages through deep learning. The team is developing an AI assistant for language professors and tools that keep the curricula up-to-date with changes in the Hindi language. Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies,...
Vanderbilt University’s Data Science Institute hosting AI Summer workshop
Apr. 25, 2023— The Data Science Institute’s AI Summer workshop, from May 8 to June 2, is a free course designed to help researchers, educators, and students gain a deep understanding of the latest AI technologies and techniques, specifically deep learning and transformers, and how they can be used to solve a variety of problems. The four-week...
DSI and Anthropology project aims for largest image-based survey of archeological features and sites in America
Jan. 24, 2023—Vanderbilt’s Steven Wernke, an Associate Professor of Archeology, is working with the Data Science Institute on a project using satellite imagery and deep learning to produce the largest image-based survey of archeological features in all of the Americas. Archaeologists have faced perennial problems of scale and representation, struggling to match the scale of analysis to...
Data Science Institute looking for students for project using AI models to better understand new languages
Jan. 6, 2023—Languages are constantly evolving and adapting to the world around them. Most approaches to learning new languages are rigid and don’t account for colloquialisms and outside influence, especially in the case of low-resource languages such as Hindi. The formal Hindi vocabulary taught by most textbooks is hardly going to help someone trying to discuss a...
Announcing: New Deep Learning Cohort for Fall 2022!
Sep. 8, 2022—Working on a research project and thinking that deep learning could provide a solid approach for your objectives? Using deep learning networks but wish you had more background or context? Trying your best to make it through online resources, but need a bit more consistency and support? Join the Fall 2022 DSI Deep Learning Cohort!...
The Covid-19 Experience: an Analysis of Ideology and Information Spread Through Social Media (DSI-SRP)
Sep. 8, 2022—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Priya Bhatt to work in the laboratory of Jonathan Metzl in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society during the summer of 2022. Priya is a junior with a major in Medicine, Health, & Society. In this study, Priya conducted an analyses of social media and political messaging utilizing novel data...
Revolutionizing Learning Engagement through Technology: Talk to Einstein
Mar. 22, 2022—Looking to work with training transformers for revolutionizing learning engagement in the humanities? Read on to learn more about a novel application by Dr. Ole Molvig – assistant professor of History and founder of the Emergent Technology Lab at the Wond’ry! About Talk To Einstein is an experiment in algorithmically generated (or “synthetic”) media based...
2022 AI Summer with the Data Science Institute
Mar. 9, 2022—Have a hard drive full of sequential data like audio, text, images, or even DNA and can’t figure out how to make the most of it? Have an innovative research solution or business objective in mind, but stuck in a quagmire of summarizing your data into a few condensed features? Need broad solutions that cover...