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ABSTRACTION organizza vari eventi rivolti a comunità scientifiche, alcuni riservati al gruppo di ricerca, altri aperti, come ad esempio seminari con speakers di rilievo, su temi legati agli obiettivi del progetto. I seminari pubblici, indicati con "[SEM]", vengono registrati e sono poi reperibili nella pagina web SEMINARI REGISTRATI. Per quanto riguarda le attività di divulgazione, come ad esempio gli interventi educativi nelle scuole, consultare il menù "Disseminazione".

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16 OTTOBRE 2025

[SEM] Concretely offensive: The processing of reclaimed slurs

Aula 2, Santa Cristina Piazzetta Morandi, 2, Bologna. - Evento in presenza e online

Seminar with invited Speaker: Prof. Filippo Domaneschi Università di Genova

17 OTTOBRE 2025

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

Aula 1, Santa Cristina Piazzetta Morandi, 2, Bologna. - Evento in presenza e online

Seminar with invited speaker: Veronica Repetti, University of Genova.

19 NOVEMBRE 2025

[SEM] Modalities of acquisition of abstract and concrete concepts

Evento in presenza e online

Seminar with invited speaker: prof.ssa Valentina Cuccio

Eventi conclusi

03 APRILE 2025

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

Aula Poeti, Strada Maggiore 45, Bologna - Evento in presenza e online

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.

01 OTTOBRE 2024

[SEM] Investigating linguistic strategies for abstraction

Aula Seminari 2 in S. Giovanni in Monte, BOLOGNA - Evento in presenza e online

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

23 SETTEMBRE 2024

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

Aula IX, Via Cartoleria 5. BOLOGNA - Evento in presenza e online

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

19 SETTEMBRE 2024

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

Aula C, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, BOLOGNA - Evento in presenza e online

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.

16 SETTEMBRE 2024

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

Aula C, Santa Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi, BOLOGNA - Evento in presenza e online

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.

08 LUGLIO 2024

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

Aula Capitani ​ (Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2, Bologna)​ - Evento in presenza e online

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.

27 FEBBRAIO 2024

[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​ - Evento in presenza e online

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

15 FEBBRAIO 2024

Lab2Lab

Evento online

Il gruppo di ricerca Abstraction incontra il gruppo RTG "Computational Cognition", University of Osnabrueck, coordinato da Prof. Dr. Nicole Gotzner.

30 GENNAIO 2024

[SEM] Polysemy can (but does not have to) be difficult: New findings and methodological challenges in understanding bilingual meaning comprehension of concrete and abstract concepts.

Aula B (Santa Cristina)​ P.zza Morandi 2, Bologna - Evento in presenza e online

Speaker: Dr. Ana Werkmann Horvat https://awerkmann.wixsite.com/ana-werkmann-horvat Virtual room: https://shorturl.at/fAL68