The Delos AI team – Serena Auriemma, Ludovica Cerini, and Martina Miliani – of the Coling Lab has won the third price at the Start Cup by Regione Toscana. Delos AI will now participate at the start-up national competition. More information

The Delos AI team – Serena Auriemma, Ludovica Cerini, and Martina Miliani – of the Coling Lab has won the Contamination Lab Start-up Award at the University of Pisa. Congratulations at the Delos AI team for this big success!    

Event Date: Thursday, 4 July, 2024 Location: 11:00-13:00, Sala Riunioni, Pal. Venera (II piano) Speaker: Prof. Cristiano Chesi (IUSS, Pavia) Title: Generative linguistics in the era of very Large Language Models Abstract:  A significant debate has emerged in response to a paper written by Steven…

Event Date: Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 Location: 10:00-12:00, Sala delle Colonne, Pal. Venera (I piano) Speaker: Prof. Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento) Title: Un immagine  e mille parole. Riflessioni sulla generazione di testo e immagini Abstract:  La ricerca recente sull’intelligenza artificiale che si occupa di linguaggio…

On March 26th, official opening of the GoodAI Lab a multidisciplinary laboratory for the study, promotion and validation of trustworthy, transparent, robust, safe and ethical AI Systems. CoLing Lab is a founder member of the GoodAi Lab. For more information, see: https://www.unipi.it/index.php/news/item/27780-inaugurato-il-laboratorio-good-ai-per-una-intelligenza-artificiale-buona

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…