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Petra Dalunde
Petra Dalunde has a past as a political advisor in the City Hall of Stockholm, pedagogy and testbed creator. For the last three years she has been working at RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), coordinating the CitCom TEF (Testing and Experimentation Facilities for AI in Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities) as well as being a coordinator for Formal Test and Evaluation of AI at RISE, and in 2025 became a co-director for the Swedish AI Factory MIMER. |
Talk title: Swedish AI Factory MIMER
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Prof. Dr. Verginica BARBU MITITELU
Verginica Barbu Mititelu is a senior researcher in the Natural Language Technology group of the Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the representative of the Multiword Expression section in the SIGLEX board and leader of the Working Group on Lexicon-corpus interface of the UniDive COST Action. She has constantly been preoccupied with and involved in the development of language resources, especially for Romanian, applying up-to-date annotation schemas and adjusting them to the characteristics of the language under study. She has also been concerned with standardizing the resources developed, especially using Linked Data principles of representation, and with the registration of their metadata in international data repositories. |
Talk title: A fly in the Ointment. Multiword Expressions and Their Challenges for NLP Tools and Tasks
Abstract: Commonly referred to as expressions, locutions, idioms, or constructions, multiword combinations that exhibit idiosyncratic behaviour across linguistic levels constitute a pervasive and well-recognised challenge in natural language. Within computational linguistics, such constructions have long been identified as a significant 'bottleneck' for Natural Language Processing. Despite the substantial progress brought about by large-scale language models, the robust and systematic handling of these non-compositional units remains an open problem. In this talk, I will discuss the computational challenges posed by these phenomena and present the broader efforts of the international research community dedicated to their linguistic and computational modelling.
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Prof. Dr. Panos M. Pardalos
Panos M. Pardalos serves as professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor of industrial and systems engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and information science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering program. He is also the director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Pardalos is a world-leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. |
Talk title: will be announced
Abstract: will be announced