Current Status of NLP in South East Asia with Insights from Multilingualism and Language Diversity
Description: Skyler Wang (PhD) is a Sociologist who studies sociotechnical systems and social-centered AI.
Hello! I’m a Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology at UC Berkeley and a Visiting Sociologist at Meta AI . An economic and cultural sociologist by training, I use mixed methods, including surveys, interviews, international fieldwork, and digital ethnographies to investigate whether socio-technical systems & AI technologies designed to improve our day-to-day lives meet their moral and social commitments. More specifically, my dissertation explores how monetary and gifting structures in the sharing economy shape econom
At Meta AI, I work on making machine translation (see “ No Language Left Behind ” and “ SeamlessM4T “) and large language models more socially and ethically oriented.
My research and ideas have been featured on NPR (Morning Edition, All Things Considered), WIRED, Reuters, The Verge, Vox, San Francisco Chronicle, Quartz, GQ, Mashable, HuffPost, and USA Today.
Current Status of NLP in South East Asia with Insights from Multilingualism and Language Diversity