From Linguistics to Conversational AI with Lena Smith

Group Language major (French & Linguistics) 

14 Apr
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Add to Calendar 2025-04-14 16:00:00 2025-04-14 17:00:00 Spring 2025 Speaker Series: Careers In Language & Linguistics From Linguistics to Conversational AI with Lena Smith Group Language major (French & Linguistics)  JSC Commons Occidental College info@kwallcompany.com America/Los_Angeles public
Location: JSC Commons
Event Date: Apr. 14, 2025
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Lena is a Solutions Engineer at Boost.ai, a Norwegian Conversational AI company. At Boost, she uses her linguistics background in a wide range of roles. She designs interactions between computers and humans, getting to put her writing, syntax, semantics, translation, and computational linguistics skills to use-and has fun doing it, even if she sits too much.

In this talk, Lena will share how her linguistics and language training shaped her path into conversational AI, what it’s like to work in the field, and how studying language can lead to unexpected and exciting careers.

Lena Smith