[PLing] OFAI 2022 Lecture Series

[Tristan Miller]

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


-- 
Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
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