Talks and Tutorials
June 2024. Towards Equitable and Culturally Adapted Multilingual Dialog Systems. Invited talk. Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf, Germany.
May 2024. Towards Equitable and Culturally Adapted Multilingual Dialog Systems. Keynote talk. Third Ukranian Natural Language Processing Workshop, collocated with LREC-COLING 2024. Turin, Italy (online).
April 2024. An Incredibly Short Introduction to Modular Deep Learning. Invited talk. University of Geneva. Geneva, Switzerland.
January 2024. An Incredibly Short Introduction to Modular Deep Learning. Invited talk. Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Copenhagen, Denmark.
May 2023. Bridging the Dialect Gap with Modular Transfer Learning? Keynote talk. Tenth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, collocated with EACL 2023. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
March 2023. Modular and Composable Transfer Learning in NLP. Invited talk. Google Research. Zürich, Switzerland.
March 2023. Modular and Composable Transfer Learning in NLP. Invited talk. University of Würzburg. Würzburg, Germany.
February 2023. Modular and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of (Multilingual) NLP Models. Invited lecture. 2023 HPLT & NLPL Winter School. Skeikampen, Norway.
December 2022. Modular and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for NLP Models. Tutorial. 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022). Abu Dhabi, UAE. (with Jonas Pfeiffer and Sebastian Ruder)
October 2022. Towards Language Technology for a Truly Multilingual World? Invited talk. Unbabel. Lisbon, Portugal.
June 2022. Towards Language Technology for a Truly Multilingual World? Invited talk. Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. Sheffield, UK.
May 2022. Natural Language Processing for Multilingual Task-Oriented Dialogue. Tutorial. 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). Dublin, Ireland. (with Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Olga Majewska, Edoardo Ponti, and Goran Glavaš)
May 2022. Modular and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Multilingual NLP Models. Invited talk. Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, USA.
May 2022. Modular and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Multilingual NLP Models. Invited talk. Mila - Quebec AI Institute. Montreal, Canada.
May 2022. Towards Language Technology for a Truly Multilingual World? Invited talk. NYU Center for Data Science, New York University. New York, USA.
April 2022. Towards Language Technology for a Truly Multilingual World? Keynote talk (2021 Karen Spärck Jones Award winner). 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022). Stavanger, Norway.
December 2021. Efficient Intent Detection with Deep Neural Networks. Invited talk. NYC NLP Meetup. Online.
September 2021. Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer and Adaptation in Low-Data Regimes: On Some Achievements, Trends, and Challenges. Keynote lecture. 24th Text, Speech, and Dialogue Conference (TSD 2021). Olomuc, Czech Republic (online).
June 2021. Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer and Adaptation in Low-Data Regimes: On Some Achievements, Trends, and Challenges. Invited talk. Huawei Vision Forum 2021. London, UK (online).
June 2021. Build a Multilingual Virtual Assistant in 10 Days. Webinar. PolyAI & DT. Online.
June 2021. Modeling Language Variation and Universals: Cross-Lingual NLP for Low-Resource and Typologically Diverse Languages. Keynote lecture. AILC Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2021. Rome, Italy.
April 2021. Cross-Lingual Transfer in Low-Data Regimes: On Some Achievements, Trends, and Challenges. Invited talk. Penn NLP, University of Pennsylvania. Online.
November 2020. Data-Efficient Natural Language Understanding for Task-Oriented Dialogue. Keynote talk. 5th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (SCAI 2020), collocated with EMNLP 2020. Online.
February 2020. Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings? Invited talk. Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim. Mannheim, Germany.
January 2020. Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings? Invited talk. EMBEDDIA Open Days (ERC Project Workshop). Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb. Zagreb, Croatia.
November 2019. Data Collection and End-to-End Learning for Conversational AI. Tutorial. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019). Hong Kong. (with Paweł Budzianowski and Iñigo Casanueva)
November 2019. Semantic Specialization of Distributional Word Vectors. Tutorial. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019). Hong Kong. (with Goran Glavaš and Edoardo Maria Ponti)
September 2019. Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings? Invited talk. Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, UK.
September 2019. Neural Models of Response Selection for Bootstrapping Dialogue Systems. Invited talk. REWORK AI Asisstant Summit. London, UK.
August 2019. Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings? Keynote talk. The 7th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, collocated with ACL 2019. Florence, Italy.
July 2019. Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Representation Learning. Tutorial. 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019). Florence, Italy. (with Sebastian Ruder and Anders Søgaard)
July 2019. Do We Really Need Fully Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings? Invited talk. Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany.
March 2019. Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Specialised Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt. Darmstadt, Germany.
March 2019. Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Specialised Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Data and Web Science Group, University of Mannheim. Mannheim, Germany.
December 2018. Task-Oriented Conversational AI. Tutorial. Polish View on Machine Learning (PLinML 2018), University of Warsaw. Warsaw, Poland. (with Paweł Budzianowski and Iñigo Casanueva)
December 2018. Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Specialised Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven. Leuven, Belgium.
November 2018. Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes. Invited talk. Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK.
September 2018. Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki. Helsinki, Finland.
August 2018. Word Vector Space Specialisation. Advanced 1-week course. 30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2018). Sofia, Bulgaria.
July 2018. Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using (Specialised) Word Embeddings. Keynote lecture. 1st International Conversational Intelligence Summer School. Moscow, Russian Federation.
June 2018. Deep Learning for Conversational AI. Tutorial. 16th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT 2018). New Orleans, USA. (with Iñigo Casanueva, Nikola Mrkšić, and Pei-Hao Su).
April 2018. Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK.
December 2017. Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Department of Psychology, University of Belgrade. Belgrade, Serbia.
September 2017. Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Apple. Cambridge, UK.
September 2017. Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings. Invited talk. Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark.
September 2017. Cross-Lingual Word Representations: Induction and Evaluation. Tutorial. 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2017). Copenhagen, Denmark. (with Anders Søgaard)
April 2017. Word Vector Space Specialisation. Tutorial. 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2017). Valencia, Spain. (with Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and Nikola Mrkšić)
March 2017. Word Vector Space Specialisation. Invited talk. Computer Science Department, Bar Ilan University. Ramat Gan, Israel. (with Nikola Mrkšić)
March 2017. Word Vector Space Specialisation. Invited talk. Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion IIT. Haifa, Israel. (with Nikola Mrkšić)
September 2016. Bilingual Distributed Word Representations. Invited talk. Machine Reading Group, University College London. London, UK.
June 2015. Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts. Invited talk. LIMSI, University Paris-Saclay. Paris, France.
February 2015. Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts. Invited talk. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK.
February 2014. Multilingual Probabilistic Topic Modeling and its Applications in Web Mining and Search. Tutorial. 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2014). New York City, USA. (with Marie-Francine Moens)
March 2013. Monolingual and Cross-Lingual Probabilistic Topic Models and their Applications in Information Retrieval. Tutorial. 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013). Moscow, Russian Federation. (with Marie-Francine Moens)