Presentations (selected)
2024| Lunch and Learn Virtuelle Akademie, Bern University of Applied Sciences
KI: Kreatives Denken und Künstliche Intelligenz
2023 | CIS Network Seminar, EPFL, Switzerland
Towards creative systems with linguistic modelling
2023| Workshop Analogies: From learning to explainability, Arras
Can language models learn analogical reasoning? Investigating training objectives and comparisons to human performance.
2023 | ***Keynote*** HumanCLAIM workshop, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Language Specificity and Low-Resource Languages
2023 | Annual retreat NCCR Evolving Language, Switzerland
Something old, something new, something borrowed… Modelling compounds computationally as they evolve over time
2023 | MLT meeting, DFKI, Germany
On the language specificity of mBERT and pre-training for low-resource languages
2023 | ISLE colloquium, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Computational models for lexical innovation
2023 | Pint of Science, Sion, Switzerland (Podcast in French)
Inspiration Artificielle @Idiap
2023| Panel at UPSKILLS Multiplier Event, University of Geneva, Switzerland
What does it take to work in tech today?
2023| ***Keynote*** SSIE workshop, Idiap Martigny Switzerland
Le traitement du langage naturel en 2023
2023 | MAZ Recherchetag, Lucerne, Switzerland
AI for the media: How AI influences the media
2022| SwissMediaForum, Luzern, Switzerland (fourth video 2022)
AI for the media: Deep fake, what is real and how can we recognise it
2022| ***Plenary*** 4th Waseda Brussels Conference – New Technologies and Regulation in Japan and Europe, Brussels, Belgium
Computational Creativity
2022| AI policy and Tech Talks, Digital Law Center (UNIGE)
Computational creativity and law: some results from novel concept generation
2022| LT research seminar, University of Helsinki, Finland
Crossing boundaries: from cross-lingual learning to creative thought
2021 I Comsc Seminar, University of Cardiff, UK:
Modelling lexical innovation over time
2019 I ***Opening Keynote*** CEEC conference, Essex, UK:
Natural Language Processing for Creative Thought: Predicting Novel Concepts
2019| NLP seminar, University of Cambridge, UK:
`Profit factory' and `bathroom break': How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence
2019 I 2019 I URRP seminar, University of Zurich, CH:
Testing features from linguistic theory with machine learning and constructing multilingual resources
2019 I Computational Linguistics Colloq, University of Zurich, CH:
Analysing compounds and predicting their emergence over time
2019 I Linguistics seminar, University of Geneva, CH
Testing the predictive power of features from linguistic theory: A study on the interpretation of deverbal compounds
2019 I ***Plenary*** Big data for museums, University College London, Qatar:
Big data from social media, how to deal with it?
2018 I Linguistics Circle, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Cross-lingual approaches to Compound Analysis
2017 I ***Keynote***: International Conference on Computational Semantics, Montpellier, France
Noun compounds, from analysis to generation