Event Date: Friday, 10 November, 2023 Location: 11:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Arthur Glenberg (Arizona State University) Title: Language comprehension requires embodied processing Abstract:  In the first part of this talk, I discuss whether Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, understand language…

Event Date: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 Location: 09:00-11:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Ryan Nefdt (University of Cape Town) Title: Natural Languages and Real Patterns: Grammars and Language Models Abstract:  In this talk, I present my own view of the nature of…

Event Date: Thursday, 15 December, 2022 Location: 15:00-16:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Gosse Minnema (University of Groningen) Title: Perspective Matters: Event Framing in Language and Society Abstract:  Different linguistic expressions can conceptualize the same event from different viewpoints by emphasizing certain participants over…

Event Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2022 Location: 12:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Florent Perek (University of Birmingham) Title: Direct object definiteness and verb meaning: A corpus-based investigation Abstract: Research on English and other languages typically makes two basic assumptions about the grammar…

Event Date: Wednesday, 14 September, 2022 Location: 11:00-12:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Philippe Blache (CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université) Title: Compositionality, unification and the good-enough perspective Abstract: Many different works address the question of knowing whether language processing is compositional or not. As…

Event Date: Monday, 11 July, 2022 Location: 11:00-13:00, Teams:https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzAxMDQ4ZDEtODY2Ny00ZjNiLWI4NTgtYTY0ZWM2YmE3ODVh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22443d4793-d453-4744-9862-1db273b59c4d%22%7d Speaker: Dr. Lucia Busso & Prof. Tim Grant (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics) Title: The FOrensic Linguistic Databank: the challenge of open science in Forensic Linguistics Abstract: The talk presents an innovative online resource for sharing…

Event Date: Friday, 8 April, 2022 Location: 11:00-13:00, Aula Magna, Pal. Matteucci Speaker: Prof. Giosuè Baggio (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Title: Composition and compositionality in a parallel architecture for language processing Abstract: Compositionality has been a central concept in linguistics and philosophy for…

The paper “Did the Cat Drink the Coffee? Challenging Transformers with Generalized Event Knowledge“ by Paolo Pedinotti, Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Enrico Santus, Alessandro Lenci, and Philippe Blache has received the Best Paper Award at *SEM – The 10th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational…

Event Date: Wednesday, 10 March, 2021 (15:00) Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmM1OGVmYWMtOTBkZi00MmZlLWE2ZGEtMjQyNTVkOWRjZjhh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a53a14ac-fe44-4cb2-8a05-854c63a23450%22%7d Speaker: Prof. Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) Title: Modelling the interplay of metaphor and emotion Abstract: Besides making our thoughts more vivid and filling our communication with richer imagery, metaphor plays a fundamental structural role in…

The paper “Comparing Probabilistic, Distributional and Transformer-Based Models on Logical Metonymy Interpretation“ by Giulia Rambelli, Emmanuele Chersoni, Alessandro Lenci, Philippe Blache, and Chu-Ren Huang has received the Best Paper Award at the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL),…