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27th September, 2020: The Journey of Publishing a Book during Quarantine by Soundarya Balasubramani

Soundarya's recent book, Admitted, is a guide for the end-to-end application process for students aspiring to . This talk was about the journey of publishing the book - including all the ups, downs, lessons learnt, and of course, the inevitable success!

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23rd August, 2020: A Trip through the Magical World of Languages by Dr. Monojit Choudhury , Microsoft Research Lab, India.

Linguistics is a topic hardly ever discussed at school! As Dr. Choudhury mentioned, languages are prescribed to us, but not described. Today's fascinating talk delved into the nature of languages, their similarities, differences, and how they are processed by humans and computers. It was great seeing such a diverse audience - we even had two very enthusiastic 9-year-old homeschoolers who came up with some very curious questions!
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Has it occurred to you that we only understand concepts that we have words for?

While you may only see “snow” in an Arctic landscape, Eskimos would simply be unable to fit the diversity of their world in one word. Their vocabulary includes different words for falling snow, hard-packed, soft, slushy; 47 in total!

With the linguistic diversity that we have around the world, is our reality shaped by our language?

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Do you notice how many languages you mix all the time as you speak? It happens everywhere, and it's called codemixing. It seems to be particularly hard to get AI systems to understand and generate such bhasha.

Hear all about these challenges and more this Sunday at Launchpad.

A Trip through the Magical World of Languages by Dr. Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research Lab, India

23rd August at 5:30 p.m. via Zoom.Open to all and free.
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