Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2021

Rome, 16th-18th June 2021
DII – Aula Leonardo
University Tor Vergata

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he 2021 edition of the Lectures on Computational Linguistics is an event dedicated to central themes in the field of Computational Linguistics.

The 2021 edition of AILC Lectures, organized by prof. R. Basili, will take place at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. (The first three editions took place at the University of Pavia).
The interdisciplinary nature of the school characterizes two main areas: the humanistic one, characterized by topics related to linguistics and investigations in the field of digital humanities, and the technological one, linked to the topics of computer science, computer engineering and, in particular, artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences.

Topics of the 2021 edition

The 2021 edition in Rome will focus on topics related to the following areas:

• Neural representation of lexical semantics
• Neural learning in machines
• Inductive approaches to human-machine dialogue
• Emerging linguistic representations
• Cross-linguistic approaches to natural language processing

The event is primarily addressed to graduate students and Ph.D. candidates, but welcomes all those who might be interested in the topics. Participation is free but subject to registration. The Lectures are organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) in collaboration with the Department of Enterprise Engineering of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata (DII).

At present, the event is scheduled in presence and in streaming. You will be asked to express your preference on how to participate during registration.

Program

16th June 2021 – Aula Leonardo – MacroArea Ingegneria, Università di Roma, Tor Vergata

• 14.00-14.30: Opening: Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Tor Vergata), Elisabetta Jezek (Università degli Studi di Pavia), Bernardo Magnini (Presidente della Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale)
• 14.30-16.30: Visually Grounded Models of Spoken Language and their Analysis and Evaluation – Grzegorz Chrupała (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
• 17.00-18.00: Students Presentations
• 18.00-19.00: Evening Speech – Multilingual Natural Language Understanding: Instructions for (Present and Future) Use – Roberto Navigli (University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy)
• 19.00-20:00: Opening Drink

17th June 2021 – Aula Leonardo – MacroArea Ingegneria, Università di Roma, Tor Vergata

• 10.30-11.00: Welcome Reception
• 11.00-13.00: Distributed Representation for Natural Language Processing – Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy)
• 14.30-16.30: Modeling Language Variation and Universals: Cross-Lingual NLP for Low-Resource and Typologically Diverse Languages – Ivan Vulic (University of Cambridge, UK)
• 17:00-18:00: Students Presentations
• 18.00-19.00: Evening Speech – A topological view of polysemy – Milica Gašić (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
• 20:00: Social Dinner

18th June 2021 – Aula Leonardo – MacroArea Ingegneria, Università di Roma, Tor Vergata

• 09.30-11.30: Dialogue and Conversational Agents, Natural Language Generation via neural models – Konstas Ioannis (Heriot Watt University, UK)
• 11.45 -12.45: Students Presentations
• 14.30-16.30: Training Neural Architectures for NLP – Danilo Croce (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
• 17.00-18:00: Closing

Students Presentations

Students who might be interested in presenting what they are currently working on during the Students’ Presentations sessions are required to submit a 500-word abstract in english to info-lcl@fbk.eu within the deadline of the 23th of May, 2021. Acceptance notices will be sent within the 30th of May, 2021.

Scientific Committee

Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
Felice Dell’Orletta (Institute for Computational Linguistics – CNR Pisa)
Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia)
Bernardo Magnini (Bruno Kessler Foundation – Trento)
Johanna Monti (University of Napoli L’Orientale)

Local Organisers

Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
Danilo Croce (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)

Organising Committee

Anna Feltracco (Wonderflow – Trento)
Manuela Speranza (Bruno Kessler Foundation – Trento)

Contatti: info-lcl@fbk.eu