OFAI Associate Researcher @Logological is interviewed for Dimensionen, ORF Radio Ö1's daily show on science and research. In the episode, "Wie KI die Uni-Lehre verändert", he speaks about the history, limitations, and educational role of #AI, as well as his recent project on computer-assisted #translation of #humour. https://sound.orf.at/podcast/oe1/dimensionen/wie-ki-die-uni-lehre-veraendert

Papers from the workshop "JOKER: Automatic Humour Analysis" have now been published in the proceedings of CLEF 2024: https://www.ofai.at/news/2024-09-19joker #NLProc #ComputationalHumour

Did you know that OFAI was founded in 1984 as a special research institution of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK)? Our parent organization, established in 1969, recently redesigned its website: https://osgk.ac.at/ #Cybernetics #ArtificialIntelligence

What makes #cartoons #funny? The sources of visual #humour are explored in a research note by Clara Swaboda and OFAI's @Logological in the European Journal of Humour Studies: https://www.ofai.at/news/2024-07-09ejhr

Peter Hallman's new article in Babel: The Language Magazine examines the origin of #language, as told by Muslim Arab linguist and philosopher Ibn Jinni: https://www.ofai.at/news/2024-07-08babel

OFAI's Stephanie Gross gave an invited talk on "#Bias in Language Models" at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna on June 13, 2024. #LLMs

"Fii uses across Arabic varieties"
Dr. Margherita Pallottino from the University of Geneva is going to speak about the multifunctionality of the particle fii, its geographical distribution and possible correlations.
When? 05 JUNE 2024 AT 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
Where? https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84282442460?pwd=NHVhQnJXOVdZTWtNcWNRQllaQWFnQT09

https://www.ofai.at/events/lectures2024spring

#Linguistics #Arabic #LanguageResearch #Dialectology

OFAI is proud to present "Designing Human–Robot Interaction", a talk by Prof. James E. Young, BSc, PhD of the University of Manitoba.
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
https://www.ofai.at/events/2024-05-29young #HRI

📢 We are pleased to invite you to participate in the
GermEval2024 GerMS-Detect shared task about Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora,
to be published at #KONVENS2024 (https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/).
For details see the Competition Website:
https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/

📢 Join us for the upcoming OFAI lecture by Jordan Kodner from Stony Brook University: “Is it Language or Task Design? Reinterpreting language models' recent successes in morphology and syntax learning”.
Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
https://t.co/GJzEq7Fzqt #ML #LM

The OFAI Lecture by Klaus M. Stiefel, "The #Energy Challenges of Artificial Superintelligence", is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vyEhr4tslZM?si=EOzyuYOUeQBy6Coo

With the rise of #LLMs, will symbolic #linguistics be left in the dust? Thomas Graf of Stony Brook University presents "Linguistics and Symbolic Computation in a World of Large Language Models", the next talk in OFAI's 2023 Lecture Series. Join us online on Wednesday, 20 December at 18:30 CET: https://www.ofai.at/events/2023-12-20graf

Klaus M. Stiefel delivers the next OFAI lecture, "The #Energy Challenges of Artificial Superintelligence". Join us in person at OFAI or online via Zoom on Wednesday, 13 December at 18:30 CET: https://www.ofai.at/events/2023-12-13stiefel #ArtificialIntelligence

Tonight's talk by @habernal on #privacy in #NLProc is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KRVXpTlUt44?si=aOX-oqsFA7wrjdbL

Natural language processing has brought us enormous benefits, but with it challenges and concerns surrounding #privacy. These issues are tackled in "Privacy in #NLP: Are we There yet?", a talk by @habernal of Paderborn University. Join us online on 6 December at 18:30 CET: https://www.ofai.at/events/2023-12-06habernal

A video of Dagmar Gromann's talk, "Do Large Language Models Grasp #Metaphors?", is now available: https://youtu.be/JCb44xuziZk?si=vM0NeoAZjSatApjD

OFAI's @Logological made a research visit yesterday to the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Institute for #MachineLearning He delivered an invited talk, "Computational Analysis and Translation of #Wordplay", as part of the Lecture Series for first-year students in the Bachelor's in #ArtificialIntelligence programme.

OFAI's 2023 Fall Lecture Series continues with Dagmar Gromann of the University of Vienna. Join us in person or online for her talk, "Do #LLMs Grasp #Metaphors?", on 22 November at 18:30 CET: https://www.ofai.at/events/2023-11-22gromann

A video of Erich Prem's OFAI Lecture on #Ethics and #AI is now available: https://youtu.be/YRdEHmpJTU4

A video of Simon Penny's OFAI Lecture, "Skill: Know-how, Artisanal Practices and 'Higher' Cognition" is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMPVy1zEA50