RECORDED SEMINARS

These are the seminars organized by the ABSTRACTION group.

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).