Activities

Seminar Series 2024/2025 (all times are EET, GMT +2)

All talks are open to everyone. Zoom link for the meetings: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3932216580 

A series of seminars on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their interplay with Theoretical Linguistics, Literature, and Cognitive Science.

NLP and Classics

Date: May 13th, 2025. 

• 10:00-11:00 Diego Chapinal Heras. DorAI: Computational analysis to identify cults through offerings in ancient Greece (co-organized with Classics Lab at the Department of Philology, University of Crete. Hybrid (onsite in the meetings room of the Philology Department)

NLP and Linguistic Resources

Date: November 21st, 18:00-20:00

• 18:00-19:00 – Stella Markantonatou, Research Director at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing/ATHENA RC
  “Modern Greek Dialects in the Era of AI: Resources, Models, and Tools” [slides]

• 19:00-20:00 – Maria Theoxari, PhD student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  “Συγκρότηση και επεξεργασία δίγλωσσικου παράλληλου σώματος κειμένων λογοτεχνίας (fr>el) με τη συνδρομή της Υπολογιστικής Γλωσσολογίας” [slides] [github repo]

AI Explainability and Ethics

Date: November 28th, 18:00-20:00

• 18:00-19:00 – Aarne Talman, EMEA ML & Data Science Lead at Accenture Centre for Advanced AI
  “What Can Explainable AI Learn from Models of Scientific Explanation” [slides]

• 19:00-20:00 – Konstantinos Kogkalidis, Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University and R&D Engineer at Skyfora
  “On Tables with Numbers (and What They Do (Not) Mean)”

Date: December 5th, 18:00-19:30

• 18:00-19:30 – Shalom Lappin, Professor Emeritus at KCL, Professor of Natural Language Processing and QMUL, and Senior Researcher at CLASP, University of Gothenburg
  AI Dangers: Imagined and Real

Seminar Series 2022/2023 (all times are EET, GMT +2)

All talks are open to everyone. Zoom link for the meeting: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3932216580

November 18th, 2022, 19:00-20:30 - Adam Ek, University of Gothenburg, “Doing random and non-random things with words: A practical tutorial with PyTorch” [material]

December 9th, 2022, 19:00-20:30pm -  Aarne Talman,  University of Helsinki, MuVeS. "A Practical Introduction to Text Classification with Transformer Models" [material] (link to Aarne's github, the notebooks used in the talk plus other useful resources can be found there)

February 10th, 2023, 12:00-13:30pm - Chatrine Qwaider, Chalmers University. Postponed to a later date. 

March 10th, 2023, 18:00-19:30pm - Mahmoud El-Haj, University of Lancaster, I See What You Mean: A Practical Guide to NLP Visualisation [slides] (the slides include a QR code that takes you to the github repository, where the code shown in the seminar plus many other treats can be found)´

Abstract: In this presentation, I will introduce the concept of visualisation in natural language processing (NLP) and explore the challenges associated with visualising text data. I will demonstrate several examples of how text can be visualised online, followed by a live tutorial on how to download data from Twitter, create word clouds and embeddings, and perform topic modeling. Throughout the tutorial, I will use accessible language and straightforward examples to provide a practical, hands-on guide to NLP visualisation . Whether you're a seasoned NLP practitioner or just getting started, this presentation will help you gain a better understanding of how to visualise NLP data and extract insights from it.    

March 23th, 2023, 13:00-14:30pm - Chatrine Qwaider, Chalmers University, From A to Z: How to build your corpus [pdf], [code], [data] (the Greek data Kathrein used are not provided, we are in a process of releasing them soon)

March 30th, 2023, 19:00-20:30pm - Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg and Queen Mary, University of London, TBA (Postponed to a later date)