Dinner time, to keep the discussion going with our invited speakers Prof Filippo Domaneschi and Dott. Veronica Repetti

Verena Rieser @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 in Vienna, keynote on day 2.
We need human/AI alignment, but whats the gold standard we aim at? Which humans? Moreover, human demographic data can be misleading and ambiguous (check example in the picture :-))

"Most papers are like 'look what i can have LLMs do' but it is LLM popcorn. It remains unclear why they do what they do. We need a LLM theory". Eduard Hovy's thought provoking talk at panel on Generalizations here at @aclmeeting.bsky.social is compelling (and long overdue!) 👏👏👏

@aclmeeting.bsky.social #acl2025 conference theme this year is GENERALIZATIONS in NLP models.
Can models generalize, when the content of their concepts differs from that of humans?
Check poster sess. 2: "How Humans and LLMs Organize Conceptual Knowledge: Exploring Subordinate Categories in Italian"

@mariannabolog.bsky.social at @unibz.bsky.social is going to present Abstraction_ERC outputs this afternoon, as invited keynote speaker of the workshop ABSTRACTION: Language - Science - Engineering

Our amazing postdoc @grambelli.bsky.social, at the MEDAL Summer School in Birmingham!
medal.ut.ee/event/medal-...
Brava Giulia – your work keeps inspiring us! 💥🦾💻🧠✨

#Computational #Linguistics #PostdocLife #MEDAL2025 #WomenInSTEM #AbstractionProject

"Summer in Bologna", featuring THE FAN as main protagonist.
From the Abstraction group that's all for today 😅

Have a peaceful weekend

Final round table discussion to pave new grounds on research about conversational dynamics
@catemauri.bsky.social @fusaroli.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @tommasoc80.bsky.social @bodowinter.bsky.social @caterinavillani.bsky.social @annaborghi.bsky.social @mariannabolog.bsky.social

We just played analogical word ladders here :-)

Interjections as the abstract elements in language par excellence. The scaffolding of natural languages @dingemansemark.bsky.social

So we have this forest room for coffee breaks, which is an amazing immersive experience

@catemauri.bsky.social now giving a talk about cooperation in meaning making and abstraction mechanisms for alignment

Ideophones in conversation, in a thought provoking talk by @bodowinter.bsky.social

Starting from Monday march 31st a temporary exhibition hosted by the Dep. Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Bologna will showcase the scientific findings achieved by the Abstraction research group.
See you in Via Cartoleria 5, 40100 Bologna, Italy.

📊 Tools & Methods to Study Specificity (@caterinavillani.bsky.social & @mariannabolog.bsky.social under review for @elsevierconnect.bsky.social encyclopedia)

📢 ABSTRACTION presents:

A workshop with brilliant speakers who will discuss language, conversations, and social interaction!
🗓️ April 3rd | 9-18 (Rome time)
📍 In person: Bologna, IT
💻 From remote: shorturl.at/oEM7S
🔴 Limited in-person seats–Register by March 21st (see the flyer)

Don’t miss it!

The new official social account of the Abstraction project is now linked in the Abstraction websites. And yes, it is @bsky.app and not X anymore.
The scientific sky is bluer here 💪
Public website:
www.abstractionproject.eu
Academic website:
site.unibo.it/abstraction/it

Foto di gruppo! @FestScienza
Scale di Parole, @TalentGardenit
A Genova, Giardini Baltimora @ComunediGenova

Ready for a 3 days of public engagement with the Abstraction group (<a href="http://www.abstractionproject.eu)" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.abstractionproject.eu)
At Festival della Scienza in Genova, Italy 🇮🇹
<a href="http://www.festivalscienza.eu" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.festivalscienza.eu
Check out our activity: https://www.festivalscienza.it/programma-2024/scale-di-parole

Abstraction. The process of filtering out details to retain only essential features that are useful to be applied in new contexts

🤓Have you ever wondered whether word concreteness and specificity differ, in relation to political parties and specific candidates? 📺👥🗣️🗣️
Check this out: Word choices in the Trump & Harris 2024 #PresidentialElection2024 debate from September 10th 🇺🇸
https://dir.lat/eFmukT

A good crowd of in presence as well as from remote participants for Kristina Kobrock's seminar at Abstraction today: a presentation of 3 studies on linguistic strategies for abstraction. <a href="http://kristinakobrock.github.io" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://kristinakobrock.github.io

Kristina Kobrock giving a talk on linguistic strategies for abstraction, a topic at the very core of the Abstraction_ERC project.

Pre-seminar coffee with Kristina Kobrock at Abstraction