The National Science Foundation awarded a $247,818 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support collaborative research on multilingual language generation via understanding of code switching. The two-year project beginning October 1, 2021 and ending December 31, 2023 will advance development of technologies to generate natural language responses in multiple languages based on analysis of...
The University of Washington was awarded a $549,843 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the project "CAREER: KNOWLEDGE-RICH NEURAL TEXT COMPREHENSION AND REASONING" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2026. This Project Grant will support the development of new natural language processing techniques focused on enabling computers to comprehend and reason about text at a deeper level through the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,945 project grant to the University of Washington from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research investigating lower bounds on the complexity of concrete computational problems. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication sciences and engineering. This award furthers that goal by...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $581,783 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "CAREER: NEW APPROACHES TO MANAGING LIFECYCLES OF DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE COMMONS" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funding will support the University of Washington's investigation into new techniques for managing the lifecycles of digital materials shared...
The University of Washington was awarded a $316,356 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 to develop novel algorithms and tools that empower individuals who are blind to safely manage private visual content. The goal is to advance computing and information sciences research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Stanford University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds research to develop new tools for studying structural and inductive bias in natural language processing models. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program supports investigator-initiated research and...
The University of Notre Dame received a two-year, $165,235 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funds collaborative research on natural language (variety) processing through September 2023. Specifically, the University will conduct investigator-initiated research to advance the development and use of computational techniques for processing diverse human languages and language varieties...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $249,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the federal Computer and Information Science and Engineering grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support collaborative research on biological production and enzymatic processing methods to develop defect-free, scalable nucleic-acid circuits. The goal is to advance techniques for engineering biological systems at the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $799,999 to the University of Washington provides funding for a 4-year collaborative research project focused on developing tools and methods to leverage large language models (LLMs) in support of divergent, convergent, and cooperative work. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Develop design guidance and workflows for building more reliable and...
This Project Grant award for $268,047.00 was granted on June 1, 2024 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program. The award will fund the development of an "Intelligent Conversational Agent" that can engage in proactive, two-way dialogues with users, going beyond simple reactive responses. The system will leverage hierarchical model-based deep reinforcement learning to dynamically detect...