CLASP, University of Gothenburg

Update: Invited speakers Catherine Pelachaud: Director of Research at CNRS in the laboratory LTCI Charles Yang: Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania Napoleon Katsos: Professor of Experimental Pragmatics at the University of Cambridge

We are happy to announce that Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing) 2024 will be held in Gothenburg on October 14-15, 2024! Call for papers: gu-clasp.github.io/MILLing/cfp.ht…

Looking for a postdoc? We're recruiting! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/… web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/… web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/… web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Visit us in Gothenburg for our annual workshop: Learning with Small Data #LSD2023 Sep 11-12 Great topic, free registration, proceedings published in the ACL anthology, amazing keynote speakers. sites.google.com/view/learning-…

Thank you to all the participants for making (Dis)embodiment a big success!! #disembodiment2022

Our first in-person conference after two years! sites.google.com/view/disembodi…

How much can LMs be said to "capture" what living, embodied humans mean when they use language? We'll try to find out at our annual CLASP conference: (Dis)embodiment. September 14-16. sites.google.com/view/disembodi…

A comment on the ARR system from Shalom Lappin's FB:

The annual CLASP conference this year is ReInAct!

At 15:30 today Swedish time, we'll have the intro meeting of my Ph.D. reading group/course "It's evaluation's world, we just live in it", intended to be a critical/wry look at the world of NLP evaluation, or lack thereof. People interested in participating can DM me 4 Zoom link

We have two job new openings: Asad Sayeed has done an excellent job in explaining the positions! Have a look

Stephen Clark’s keynote on Grounded Language Learning in Virtual Environments. Second day of PaM is on: sites.google.com/view/pam2020/h… Conference is virtual but organizers and CLASP have the option to meet in a normal room

@OfClasp PaM2020 is on today: sites.google.com/view/pam2020/h…

BTW my Ph.D. student Vidya Somashekarappa is giving an @OfClasp seminar talk on gaze analysis in conversations in about an hour gu-clasp.github.io/news/Seminar%2…

The GRIPES project @OfClasp @SOMinstitutet @wasp_hs welcomes @_greret_ to @goteborgsuni this fall to pursue a PhD in the media studies program on political dogwhistles in the context of AI and social media. Gregor will bridge media studies and NLP in an interdisciplinary collab

CLASP webinar now: Milena Rabovsky on Modelling the N400 brain potential as change in a probabilistic representation of meaning

Proudly looking forward to @mmehdig PhD thesis defence tomorrow: "Why the pond is not outside the frog? Grounding in contextual representations by neural language models" More details (including a link to the text and to participate online) at flov.gu.se/english/curren…

Wlodek Zadrozny on our CLASP webinar now: Towards Co-Inductive Models of Natural Language Semantics

This week’s CLASP webinar: Gemma Boleda talking about “Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory”

Don't forget! Tell your local master's student (who are already qualified) that they just have a few days left to apply for our GRIPES position. gu.se/english/about_…