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Prof. Vicente OrdΓ³Γ±ez-RomΓ‘n (Rice University).
Thursday 19 March 2026, 11:00-12:00
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Beyond Surface Matching: Reasoning, Grounding, and Retrieval in Vision-Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Formal symbolic models for LLMs: pretraining, evaluation and post-training
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Actionable Interpretability for AI Safety
Language Technology Lab Seminars
You Know It or You Donβt: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Talk by Uri Berger: Multimodality and Human Alignment in Vision-Language Models (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cultural Biases in LLMs: From Behavioural analysis to Internal Representations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Why don't models generalize?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Model Merging β A Tale of Two Settings
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Just asking questions (MIT)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Protocols over Implementations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Interactive and Grounded Learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
On Interacting and Writing with LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
AI Interacting with People (through Language)
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Discourse models with language models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Whatβs not an Autoregressive LLM?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Behavioral machine learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
LLMs and Low-Resource Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Language Technology Lab Seminars
LLM Generalization in Social Context
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Ten Years of Universal Dependencies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Generative AI for Science
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
"What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Language modelling for the sake of language modelling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Inverting Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
Language Technology Lab Seminars
What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Prosocial Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Geographically Grounded Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
A sanity check on emergent properties
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Language Understanding for the Political Sciences
Language Technology Lab Seminars
One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI
Language Technology Lab Seminars
ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Mind the Data
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views
Language Technology Lab Seminars
SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Quantifying Linguistic Variation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Detect β Verify β Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Can we automatically anonymize text documents?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU
Language Technology Lab Seminars
IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP
Language Technology Lab Seminars
NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Transcending Dependencies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Rethinking Benchmarking in AI
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning�
Language Technology Lab Seminars
From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards explainable fact checking
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Semiparametric Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing
β οΈ A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them
β οΈ A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Correlations Between Word Vector Sets
β οΈ A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
BioNLP Research at Google
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning region based representations of categories
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Unsupervised Question Answering
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Latent Variable Models for Text Generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Relational knowledge in vector spaces
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing
Language Technology Lab Seminars
How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Probabilistic Typology
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning and testing compositionality
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning with Explanations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes
Language Technology Lab Seminars
On KL divergence and beyond
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language
LTL Seminars 2018/2019
Practical Approaches to Conversational AI
LTL Seminars 2018/2019
LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Imitation learning for language generation
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds
Language Technology Lab Seminars
NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling
Language Technology Lab Seminars
What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics?
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL Seminar
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL Seminar
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Location Resolution in Language Processing
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Cross-lingual Learning 2.0
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Semantic (Vector) Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes
Language Technology Lab Seminars
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Language Technology Lab Seminars
Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Learning to Generate Textual Data
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Reflections on Universal Dependencies
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured
Language Technology Lab Seminars
User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Internal LTL meeting
Language Technology Lab Seminars
Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time
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