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Invited speakers and special guests at the master’s programme.

• 14 November, 2022, 16:00, room 12, ground floor Andrea Sgarro (University of Trieste, Italy): To the boundaries of syntactic prehistory through a maze of languages

• 6 October, 2022, 18:00, room 220, 2nd floor [Bogdan Iordache]: On the Influence of Financial News on the Stock Market Trend

• 24 November, 2021, 18:00. Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan): The Ups and Downs of Word Embeddings, Online access here.

Abstract: Word embeddings have largely been a “success story” in our field. They have enabled progress in numerous language processing applications, and have facilitated the application of large-scale language analyses in other domains, such as social sciences and humanities. While less talked about, word embeddings also have many shortcomings — instability, lack of transparency, biases, and more. In this talk, I will review the “ups” and “downs” of word embeddings, discuss tradeoffs, and chart potential future research directions to address some of the downsides of these word representations.

About Rada Mihalcea: is the Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, computational social sciences, and multimodal language processing. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of the Journals of Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluations, Natural Language Engineering, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. She was a program co-chair for EMNLP 2009 and ACL 2011, and a general chair for North American ACL 2015 and SEM 2019. She directs multiple diversity and mentorship initiatives, including Girls Encoded and the ACL Year-Round Mentorship program. She currently serves as ACL President. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama (2009), and was named an ACM Fellow (2019) and an AAAI Fellow (2021). In 2013, she was made an honorary citizen of her hometown of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

• 17 November, 2021, 18:00. [Diana Inkpen])(https://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/) (University of Ottawa): Detecting Signs of Mental Health Issues and Suicide Ideation from Social Media, Online access here.

• December, 16, 2020, 16:00. Tsvetomila Mihaylova (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal) and Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam): Tutorial on Latent Structure Models for Natural Language Processing part II

• December, 9, 2020, 16:00. Tsvetomila Mihaylova (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal) and Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam): Tutorial on Latent Structure Models for Natural Language Processing part I

• November, 26, 2020, 16:00-17:30. Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (Cornell University): Towards an artificial intuition: Conversational markers of (anti)social dynamics

Solomon Marcus seminar in Computational Linguistics 2019-2020

• 3 March. Florin Brad, Traian Rebedea (UPB): Exploring transformer-based models (orele 18.00, Amfiteatrul Stoilow, etajul 2), Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, Universitatea din București. In cadrul prezentării, vom discuta despre modelele neurale de tip transformator și vom analiza de ce acestea aduc beneficii importante pentru o gamă largă de aplicații din lingvistica computațională.

• 25 November. Dan Dediu (Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL) and Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France, https://bitsaying.wordpress.com/): Metode cantitative aplicate la studiul diversității lingvistice (orele 18.00, amfiteatrul Spiru Haret, parter), Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, Universitatea din București. Această întâlnire este realizată împreună cu ICUB, secția Digital Humanities (https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/). Mai multe detalii aici

3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) 2019

Access here the call for papers for the third RAAI conference (28-30 June 2019).

Solomon Marcus seminar in Computational Linguistics 2019

• 3 April 2019. Catalin Stoean (University of Craiova): Machine learning for classification: from medical applications to text processing (orele 14.30, sala 220, etajul 2), Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, Universitatea din București.

• 19 March 2019. Eugen Istodor (Universitatea din București, Facultatea de Litere): Despre Caragiale și analiza computațională a umorului (orele 17.00, amfiteatrul Titeica, etajul 3), Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, Universitatea din București.

Solomon Marcus seminar in Computational Linguistics 2018

• 20 November 2018. Stefan Ruseti (UPB): Recursive Neural Networks using Dependency Masks (18:00, Spiru Haret amphitheather, ground floor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest)
• 7 March 2018. Sergiu Nisioi (Univ. of Bucharest): Exploring Neural Text Simplification Models (18:30, Stoilow amphitheater, first floor, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest)

2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) 2018

Access here the call for papers for the second RAAI conference (25-26 June 2018).

1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence (RAAI)

Access here the call for papers for the first RAAI conference (19-20 June 2017).

Solomon Marcus seminar in Computational Linguistics

• 3 May 2017. Mihai Dascalu (UPB): ReaderBench - A Multi-lingual Discourse Processing Tool (Part 2)

• 29 March 2017. Mihai Dascalu (UPB): ReaderBench - A Multi-lingual Discourse Processing Tool

• 15 March 2017. Traian Rebedea (UPB): Question Answering @ University Politehnica of Bucharest (part 2)

• 1 March 2017. Mihai Dinu, Radu Gramatovici, Monica Tataram. Messages: Andreea Calude, Walter von Hahn, Andrea Sgarro, , Lavinia Spandonide. Talks dedicated to Solomon Marcus’s birthday.

• 7 December 2016. Grzegorz Kowalski (Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw): Polish language corpora and corpus linguistics: overview and perspectives

• 16 November 2016. Virginio Cantoni (Universita di Pavia): Emerging tools of participatory experiences for exhibition and museum visitors. Walther von Hahn (University of Hamburg): Digital Humanities – New Challenges for CS. Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg): Formal Representation of vague facts in Humanites.

• 26 October 2016. Traian Rebedea (UPB): Overview of Question-Answering Solutions @ UPB

• 5 October 2016. Mihaela Balint (UPB): Analyzing RST-style discourse parsing with a focus on the rhythm of written texts

• 30 September 2016. Andrea Sgarro (Univ. of Trieste): Muljacic distance revisited