RECORDED SEMINARS

Investigating linguistic strategies for abstraction

Seminar organized by ABSTRACTION with invited speaker Kristina Kobrock (Osnabrück University, Germany)

Exploring Spatial Intuitions and Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Invited seminar organized by the ABSTRACTION group. Speaker: Phillip Wicke (https://www.phil-wicke.com/)

Me, Myself and Irony Exploring different facets of Irony with Analogies and LLMs

Seminar organized by ABSTRACTION with invited speaker Tony Veale (UCD Dublin, Ireland)

Why So Serious Building AIs with a Real Sense of Humour - Tony Veale

What is humor? when and why does it work? can it be implemented by machines? Professor Tony Veale will illustrate studies and theoretical models for AIs with a real sense of humor. Speaker: Prof Tony Veale (https://people.ucd.ie/tony.veale)

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

Chatbots are everywhere these days. 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. That potential could be harnessed to strengthen democratic cultures or destroy them, just as it could help or hinder efforts to address the existential crises of the Anthropocene. Speaker: Mitch Reyes (https://college.lclark.edu/live/profiles/105-mitch-reyes)

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

Out of sight but present in mind? Learning and processing concrete and abstract concepts in displaced contexts. Invited talk by Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/people/gabriella-vigliocco), member of Abstraction's Advisory Board.

Polysemy can (but does not have to) be difficult

Invited seminar hosted by Abstraction (ERC-2021-STG-101039777) https://site.unibo.it/abstraction/en "Polysemy can (but does not have to) be difficult: New findings and methodological challenges in understanding bilingual meaning comprehension of concrete and abstract concepts." Speaker: Dr. Ana Werkmann Horvat https://awerkmann.wixsite.com/ana-werkmann-horvat

The Semantics of Abstraction: Linguistic and Embodied Factors

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

Perspectivism in NLP

Invited Seminar. Speaker: Dott. Valerio Basile https://www.unito.it/persone/vabasile http://valeriobasile.github.io/

There is nothing arbitrary about the linguistic sign

Invited lecture within the grad course "Lingue e Linguaggio". Speaker: Prof Bodo Winter, advisory board of ABSTRACTION.

LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS: PRUNING THE HYPE Wednesday, January 11, 2023 10 a.m. Tommaso Caselli (https://www.rug.nl/staff/t.caselli/)

Abstract concepts: a challenge for theories of cognition

Special lecture given by Dr. Caterina Villani as part of the Languages and Language master's course (March 7, 2023).