Siri, What is Computational Linguistic?
In today's world, we expect the machines we use daily to understand our language. The scientific study of language, therefore, becomes essential for the development of increasingly "user-friendly" technology, enabling simple and intuitive human-machine interaction.But how is language studied? What are the observable components of language and what role does [...]
Large Language Models in the Italian Panorama: Science, Industry and Society
AILC sponsors the event "Large Language Models in the Italian Panorama: Science, Industry and Society" which will be held in Milan (at Torre dell'Acqua, Viale Sarca 232) on 6 June starting from 2.00 pm. The program is available online: https://www.unimib.it/sites/default/files/2024-05/LocandinaLLM%28definitivo%29.pdf. The event can also be attended in live streaming [...]
First CFP: CLiC-it 2024 – Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it! To commemorate this milestone, CLiC-it will be hosted in Pisa, just as it was in 2014, from the 4th to the 6th of December. Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for [...]
Newspaper article about CLiC-it 2023
The newspaper "Il Manifesto" published an article (in Italian) on the CLiC-it 2023 conference: A Venezia tra le radici e il futuro dell’Intelligenza artificiale (translation: In Venice between the roots and the future of artificial intelligence).
The new issue of the AILC newsletter is out – n. 4/2023
The new number of our newsletter is online at the following link. The full list of published issues is available at the following link.
CLiC-it 2023: updates
The invited speakers of CLiC-it 2023 are David Bamman (UC Berkeley) with a talk entitled “The Promise and Peril of Large Language Models for Cultural Analytics” and Vera Demberg (Saarland University) who will talk about “Pragmatic processing in humans and language models”. The program comprises 30 oral presentations (including [...]