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Hacknight #472 – Empowering Climate Action in Every Language with Helena Yu, Luis Ticas, and Maryam Tavakoli

Date: Dec 03, 2024

Topic: Empowering Climate Action in Every Language

This presentation introduces a powerful Multilingual Climate Chatbot, designed to bridge the gap in climate education for all Torontonians, especially youth and marginalized communities. Built on advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, this chatbot uses fine-tuned embedding models and hybrid search to cut through the disjointed, jargon-heavy climate information that currently limits engagement and creates barriers.

Speakers:

  • Helena Yu
  • Luis Ticas
  • Maryam Tavakoli

Venue: Sandford Fleming, University of Toronto

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