Agenda

ABSTRACTION organizes various events aimed at scientific communities, some reserved for the research group, others open, such as seminars with important speakers, on topics related to the project objectives. Public seminars, indicated with "[SEM]", are recorded and can then be found on the RECORDED SEMINARS web page. Regarding dissemination activities, such as educational interventions in schools, consult the "Dissemination" menu.

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Concluded events

01 OCTOBER 2024

[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/)

23 SEPTEMBER 2024

[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/

19 SEPTEMBER 2024

[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.

16 SEPTEMBER 2024

[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.

08 JULY 2024

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.

27 FEBRUARY 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​ - 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

15 FEBRUARY 2024

Lab2Lab

Online event

The Abstraction research group meets the RTG group "Computational Cognition", University of Osnabrueck, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Nicole Gotzner.

30 JANUARY 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 - In presence and online event

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

19 JANUARY 2024

Lab2Lab

The Abstraction research group meets the Polifonia research group (Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement N. 101004746) to establish collaborations on topics of common scientific interest.

20 JUNE 2023

[SEM] The Semantics of Abstraction: Linguistic and Embodied Factors

Room 2, Dep. Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna, ITALY. - In presence and online event

Speaker: Dr Hamad Al Azary (Lawrence technological University, USA)

16 JUNE 2023

Lab2Lab

The Abstraction research group meets Prof Marco Marelli's research group at the Psychology Department, Milan Bicocca University, to establish collaborations on topics of common scientific interest.

12 JUNE 2023

[SEM] Perspectivism in NLP

Room V, Dep. Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Via Cartoleria 5, Bologna, ITALY. - In presence and online event

Speaker: Dr Valerio Basile (University of Torino, Italy)