Episode 4 [Unedited]

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This is episode is the full, unedited interview with Mandy Korpusik. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, we strongly encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. EPISODE CREDITS Guest Starring Mandy Korpusik , Phd Candidate at MIT CSAIL Produced & Hosted by Adam Greenfield Executive Produced by Patrick Yurick , Instructional Designer – MIT OGE Executive Produced by Heather Konar, Communication Director – MIT OGE Special thanks to the following editors who provided us invaluable feedback that aided in the development of this show: Christopher O’Keeffe , Co-Founder of Podcation Kristy Bennet , Manager – MIT Women’s League Jennifer Cherone , Phd Candidate – MIT Burge Laboratory Erik Tillman , Phd, Formerly of the Kim Lab & Currently A Fellow at Vida Ventures, LLC The Great Communicators Podcast is a part of Gradcommx. Gradcommx, targeted at enhancing research communication, is the first offering of Gradx – a professional development project created for the graduate student population at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Office For Graduate Education. MUSIC & SOUNDS “Divider” by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International License (http://freemusicarchive.org) EPISODE SCRIPT Print The Script Here ADAM GREENFIELD Hello, Adam Greenfield here, host of The Great Communicators podcast series. What you’re about to hear is the full, unedited interview with one of the guests we spoke with. If you haven’t listened to the fully produced episode yet, I definitely encourage you to do so before listening to this one. They’re shorter in length and much more refined. You can find them all at gradx.mit.edu/podcasts. The idea behind these longer, unedited conversation is to give you an opportunity to hear the entire talk, warts and all. This is not only a fun way to hear the full flow of the conversation but it also emphasizes the importance of the points made in the shorter, produced episodes, which again, can be found at gradx.mit.edu/podcasts. Thanks for listening and enjoy the conversation. Patrick Yurick: Alright, so, interview question one is what is your name and what is your field of study? Mandy Korpusik: My name is Mandy Korpusik and I’m studying natural language processing in the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. P: What is that, specifically, what do you do? M: So, a lot of my lab mates work on speech recognition but I’m interested in what’s coming back from the speech recognizer. So if someone is using Siri, kind of understanding what they’re asking and how to respond back to them. And specifically I’m working on a diet tracking application. I’m trying to understand if someone describes their meals naturally, what the foods are that they ate and then what the nutrition facts are. P: How’d you get involved with that? M: Actually, we’re collaborating with some nutritionists at Tufts University. So they had this idea, oh, if we can use speech and language technology, maybe it would be easier for people, like their patients, to track food that they’re eating.

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