The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) is delighted to announce its 2022 Lecture Series, featuring an eclectic lineup of internal and external speakers.
The talks are intended to familiarize attendees with the latest research developments in AI and related fields (particularly computational linguistics and natural language processing), and to forge new connections with those working in other areas.
Most lectures (see prospective schedule below) will take place on Wednesdays at 18:30 Central European (Summer) Time. All lectures will be held online via Zoom; in-person attendance at OFAI Headquarters in Vienna is also possible for certain lectures.
Attendance is open to the public and free of charge. No registration is required.
Visit https://www.ofai.at/lectures for full details!
29 June Scott Patterson McGill University Domesticating Wealth Inequality: Hybrid Discourse Analysis of UN General Assembly Speeches, 1971–2018
6 July Pamela Breda Independent artist Feeling for Nonexsistent Beings
13 July Brigitte Krenn OFAI Robots as Social Agents: Between Construct and Reality
20 July Tristan Miller OFAI What's in a Pun? Assessing the Relationship Between Phonological and Semantic Distance and Perceived Funniness of Punning Jokes
27 July Katrien Beuls Université de Namur Unravelling the Computational Mechanisms Underlying the Emergence of Human-like Communication Systems in Populations of Autonomous Agents
7 September Steffen Eger Bielefeld University Text Generation for the Humanities
14 September Antti Arppe University of Alberta Finding Words that Aren't There: Using Word Embeddings to Improve Dictionary Search for Low-resource Languages
21 September Roman Pflugfelder AIT Austrian Institute of Technology Title TBA
28 September Raphael Deimel TU Wien Towards Intuitive Object Handovers Between Humans and Robots
5 October Christoph Scheepers University of Glasgow The “Crossword Effect” in Free Word Recall: A Retrieval Advantage for Words Encoded in Line with their Spatial Associations
12 October Karën Fort Sorbonne Université Title TBA
19 October Benjamin Roth University of Vienna Evaluation and Learning with Structured Test Sets
25 October Peter Hallman OFAI Comparatives in Arabic
2 November Stephanie Gross OFAI Title TBA
9 November Bernhard Pfahringer University of Waikato The World is not IID: Learning from Data Streams to the Rescue
16 November Paolo Petta OFAI Title TBA
23 November Robert Trappl OFAI Title TBA