CBS Seminars start again next week! Wed, Oct 18, 11:30 am Hong Kong time Philippe Blache (LPL-CNRS/Aix-Marseille University) Why is it so easy to understand each other during a conversation? A neuro-cognitive model of language processing integrating facilitation mechanisms

Next CBS Seminar Fri, Nov 3 2023, 10 AM (Hong Kong time) Online via Zoom Title: Language Adaptation across Timescales Speaker: Prof. Rachel Ryskin (University of California Merced)

14 Nov 2023, 10:30 am (Hong Kong time) Y301 (PolyU) and online on Zoom Speaker: Prof. Liu Qun (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab) Title: Self-improvement and Self-evolving of Large Language Models

Excited to have this work now published in Cognitive Science! @cogscisoc We present an in-depth investigation of generalized event knowledge in LLMs and humans. 📑 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… A fun project with amazing collaborators!!

Join us this weekend at PolyU CBS or online for PACLIC 2023! This year we have a terrific schedule, with lots of talks about the recent advances in linguistics and NLP! For the full conference schedule and the Zoom links see: paclic2023.github.io/program/ Enrico Santus Pranav

Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change at #EMNLP2023 : Jing Chen is presenting our poster on "ChiWUG: a graph-based evaluation dataset for Chinese lexical semantic change detection" #lchange 💪💪💪

Now at BlackboxNLP: Emmanuele Chersoni giving a linguistically motivated talk on Event Construal in BERT!

Super proud of the bachelor thesis work of my former student Chenxin Liu, which just got the Honorable Mention to Best Paper Award at BlackboxNLP 2023!! #EMNLP2023

Next CBS research seminar: Thu Jan 11, 4:00 PM HK time Speaker: Gabriella Lapesa (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Cologne & Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) Title: NLP-supported (e-)deliberation: interdisciplinary challenges and real-world applications

Next CBS Seminar: Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 2:30 PM (Hong Kong time) V321, Hong Kong PolyU Campus, and online on Zoom Speaker: Prof. Jixing Li (City University of Hong Kong) Title: Neural encoding and decoding of human speech Feel free to join us!

Tue, Mar 19, 3:30 PM Hong Kong Time Online on Zoom Speaker: Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates) Title: Cognitive (Im)Plausibility of Large Language Models

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Next CBS Research Seminar! Join us on Zoom! Tue, Apr 23, 4:30 PM Hong Kong time Online via Zoom Speaker: Lorenzo Bertolini Title: Field of dreams: applying NLP to automatize dream content analysis

The language system in the broader landscape of the human brain", a talk by the amazing Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦. Join us on Zoom tomorrow at 9 AM New York time/3 PM Rome time/9 PM Hong Kong time!

And another one! 2 out of 2! Your submission to Acl "Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds", has been accepted to the main conference. 2024.aclweb.org Giulia Rambelli @ACL24 Marianna Bolognesi

The paper "Can Large Language Models Interpret Noun-Noun Compounds? A Linguistically-Motivated Study on Lexicalized and Novel Compounds" has been accepted at @ACL2024!! Won't join the party in Bangkok, but you'll be able to hear more about it from the inexhaustible Giulia Rambelli @ACL24!

Next CBS Research Seminar! Join us! Wed Jul 3, 10 am HK time Online on Zoom Speaker: Genta Winata (Capital One AI Foundations) Title: Instruction-Tuned Language Models for Indigenous Indonesian Languages

I’ll be presenting at PolyU CBS Research seminar, sharing my recent research on Indonesian LLMs. Feel free to join the talk! Thank you for inviting me Emmanuele Chersoni

CBS Research Seminar Thursday Jul 18, 2024, 4:30 PM Hong Kong time Online via Zoom Title: Modelling creativity: why it is important, what are the challenges, and some examples Speaker: Prof. Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap Martigny, Switzerland & University of Malta)

Next CBS Seminar! Wed, Aug 7, 2:30 PM Hong Kong time BC402 PolyU Hung Hom Campus and online on Zoom Speaker: Giulia Rambelli @ACL24 (University of Bologna) Title: Word Specificity: A Measure to Investigate Semantic Abstraction and Linguistic Creativity