Poster session! #XPRAGit2024

An interesting subproject presented at #XPRAGit2024 in collaboration with #WEMB, aimed at classifying misspellings produced by gamers on #wordladders and their significant relations with gamers' sociodemographic prifiles (variables: age, education, reading habits, profession).

How does word specificity affect our interactions? are we more uncertain, more curious, more willing to keep talking when a dialogue features very specific or very general words? At #XPRAGit2024. Abstraction in collab. with Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) annaborghi

First amazing experience at this enlightening conference and welcoming community #XPRAGit2024 Today, #Poster session with our Abstraction Project ERC-StG BalLab joint study about the effect of specificity, abstractness and abstraction on interactive alignment

📢 ABSTRACTION presents: 🗓️1 October at 14.30-15.30 (Rome time) 🗣️ PhD student Kristina Kobrock kristinakobrock.github.io 📍From remote: shorturl.at/DsYad​ Recording will be available here after the event: site.unibo.it/abstraction/it… #XPRAGit2024 Language&Cognition

Pre-seminar coffee with Kristina Kobrock at Abstraction

Kristina Kobrock giving a talk on linguistic strategies for abstraction, a topic at the very core of the Abstraction_ERC project.

A good crowd of in presence as well as from remote participants for Kristina Kobrock's seminar at Abstraction today: a presentation of 3 studies on linguistic strategies for abstraction. kristinakobrock.github.io

Really happy to begin this visiting period at UCL, Language&Cognition with Prof. Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco. As an ambassador of Abstraction Project ERC-StG, I will work on the role played by word specificity in describing concrete concepts in situated and displaced contexts, in interaction.

Tommaso Lamarra UCL Prof. Gabriella Vigliocco Abstraction Project ERC-StG Delighted to have you in the lab, Tommaso! Looking fw to our continuing collaboration with Abstraction Project ERC-StG!

🎙️ Episode 2 of the 'Nature of Intelligence' season is out on #Complexity podcast! What’s the relationship between language and thought? Complex language is unique to the human species. It’s part of how we evolved, the backbone of our societies, and one of the primary ways we

🤓Have you ever wondered whether word concreteness and specificity differ, in relation to political parties and specific candidates? 📺👥🗣️🗣️ Check this out: Word choices in the Trump & Harris 2024 #PresidentialElection2024 debate from September 10th 🇺🇸 arxiv.org/abs/2410.13654

The "exact instructions" challenge plays with common sense (pragmatics) as well as with word specificity (semantics). Check it out and let me know your thoughts :-) youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5…

Abstraction. The process of filtering out details to retain only essential features that are useful to be applied in new contexts

Word Ladders is coming to Genova, ci vediamo al Festival della scienza, Talent Garden Baltimora, 30-31 ottobre dalle 9 all 17! instagram.com/reel/C0bzCs0NF…

📣 Abstraction Project ERC-StG Goes to Genova al Festival della Scienza ! Divulghiamo il nostro amore per le parole e per la linguistica @MariannaBolog Caterina Villani (she/her) #Dissemination #academiclife instagram.com/reel/DBlXZ9kot…

Ready for a 3 days of public engagement with the Abstraction group (abstractionproject.eu) At Festival della Scienza in Genova, Italy 🇮🇹 festivalscienza.eu Check out our activity: festivalscienza.it/programma-2024…

Ora a Università di Genova ha inizio il seminario tenuto da @MariannaBolog e Andrea Ravelli che presentano i progetti portati avanti all'interno di Abstraction Project ERC-StG ! #linguistica #NLProc

La nostra PI @MariannaBolog pronta a parlare di "scale di parole" per la prima giornata del Festival della Scienza ! Presenteremo #wordladders a molte classi di ogni ordine e grado. Abstraction Project ERC-StG