Agenda

[SEM] Metaphor literalization strategy: from concrete to abstract and back to concrete again

In presence and online event

invited seminar Speaker: Prof. Kristina S. Despot (National Institute for the Croatian Language, Zagreb: https://www.info.hazu.hr/en/clanovi/strkalj-despot-kristina/)

[SEM] Modalities of acquisition of abstract and concrete concepts

In presence and online event

Seminar with invited speaker: Prof.ssa Valentina Cuccio (Università di Messina, italy)

[SEM] Concrete or abstract possession? Animacy, alienability, and syntactic structure in children and adults

In presence and online event

Invited seminar Speaker: Veronica Repetti University of Genova

[SEM] Concretely offensive: The processing of reclaimed slurs

Aula 2, Santa Cristina Piazzetta Morandi, 2, Bologna.

Conversational Dynamics: How Abstraction and Abstractness Ebb and Flow in Interaction

Aula Poeti, via Strada Maggiore, 45 Bologna - In presence and online event

The workshop explores key questions surrounding the emergence of abstraction and abstractness in conversation, and how social context intertwines with these variables to shape meaning.

[SEM] Investigating linguistic strategies for abstraction

Aula Seminari 2 in S. Giovanni in Monte, BOLOGNA - In presence and online event

Seminar with invited speaker. Speaker: Kristina Kobrock (https://kristinakobrock.github.io/)

[SEM] Exploring Spatial Intuitions and Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Aula IX, Via Cartoleria 5. BOLOGNA - In presence and online event

Seminar with invited speaker: Phillip Wicke, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU). https://www.phil-wicke.com/

[SEM] Me, Myself and Irony: Exploring different facets of Irony with Analogies and LLMs

Aula C, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, BOLOGNA - In presence and online event

Seminar with invited speaker, professor Tony Veale (https://people.ucd.ie/tony.veale). The seminar delves into the analogical mechanisms that enable LLMs to perform creative abstractions and generalizations.

[SEM] Are You Not Entertained? Building AIs with a Real Sense of Humour

Aula C, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, BOLOGNA - In presence and online event

Seminar with invited speaker, professor Tony Veale (https://people.ucd.ie/tony.veale). The seminar delves into how AI systems can be designed to understand and generate humor, demonstrating the advanced capabilities of AI to think abstractly and creatively.

The language of chatbots and algorithms in the anthropocene: A rhetorical approach

Aula Capitani ​ (Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna)​ - In presence and online event

Chatbots are everywhere. But what are they really? Why are they biased? And why do they hallucinate? In this talk, we’ll address these questions as we explore the algorithmic infrastructure of chatbots, which will help us understand them as “artificial rhetorical agents” with incredible potential.

[SEM] Out of sight but present in mind? Learning and processing concrete and abstract concepts in displaced contexts.

Aula Fumagalli, ​ Piazza San Giovanni in Monte 2, Bologna​ - In presence and online event

Speaker: Prof.ssa Gabriella Vigliocco (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/gabriella-vigliocco) Virtual room: https://shorturl.at/aeop4