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In-Person Workshop: Corpus Approaches to Language, Text and Discourse Wednesday 3 December 10am-12pm Sign up via Eventbrite The workshop, which is open to staff and postgraduate students, will include researcher demonstrations, participant activities and discussion of best practice. The workshop is aimed at intermediate users, i.e. those with prior experience of using corpus analysis for...
You're warmly invited to a presentation reporting the outcomes of our study of biases and opportunities in using Large Language Models and to a discussion session afterwards. The event will take place on Friday 16 May 2025 10:00-14:00 in Parkinson 2.27. Topic: Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT, have already started making an impact on...
Registration: Free event for in-person and online participation
You are warmly invited to the upcoming LIDA and Language@Leeds event, aiming to bring together researchers across the University to foster interdisciplinary conversations and identify areas of potential collaboration. Language@Leeds is a University-wide interdisciplinary network for language research. Our work tackles key societal questions through the rigorous study of language, using diverse methods and approaches, e.g.,...
Speaker: Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Abstract: Universal Dependencies (UD) is a project developing cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages, with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. Since UD was launched almost ten years ago, it has grown...
Speakers: Wei Zhou, Janet Watson, Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) Title: Preserving Linguistic Heritage: ChatGPT cannot resist the temptation of speaking 'proper' language Abstract: Modern language technologies, such as GPT, have demonstrated their usefulness in a number of areas, yet they exhibit biases and limitations. This study explores one of the biases concerning the focus...
‘New approaches to (digital) social networks’ Prof Mikko Laitinen (University of Eastern Finland) To view the recording, please click here. Social networks play a considerable role in language variation and change, and social network theory has offered a powerful tool in modeling how linguistic innovations spread into communities (Milroy 1987). However, existing work on...