Postgraduate seminar

An informal meeting place where Masters students, PhD students, and professors meet together to discuss the ongoing research in different fronts of the COLITEC affairs.

11/10/24, 15:00 to 17:00, lab 10

- G. Palmieri and D. Polizzi. Towards a systematic review on the use of LLM-based chatbots for language practice (25 min)
- D. Ciminari. Multilingual Idiom Disambiguation and Identification through Instruction Fine-tuning, (20 min)
- Logistics and future seminars (rest of the seminar)

31/05/24, 11:00 to 13:00, lab 16

- N. Tedesco. Transcribing and annotating translingual spoken data: first challenges and solutions (30 min)
- E. Paone, C. Cervini, et al. Different ways of exploring plurilingual speech in intercomprehension (30 min)
- P. Stempniewicz. Fostering active citizenship and ethical professionalism: a service-learning paradigm for translation education (20 min)

17/05/24, 14:30 to 16:30, lab 13

- ALL. Discussion about how to improve the seminar (incl. the outcomes of the survey)
- N. Liu and M. Russo. A core metadata schema for interpreting corpora: Implementation in the Unified Interpreting Corpus (UNIC) platform (20 min)
- A. Barrón-Cedeño. How computable was computational thinking at the triennale/magistrale? (20 min)

03/05/24, 11:00. SESSION CANCELLED

15/03/24, 14:30 to 16:30, lab 10

Session 19

- N. Tedesco. Data management, privacy & open science (30 min)
- A. Barron. Computational thinking at the lauree is computable? (30 min)
- M Milicevic. Stats and research skills for all (20 min)

01/03/24, 11:00 to 12:30, lab 9

Session 18
- O. Arsic and S. Bernardini. Assessment in research-based teaching (20 min)
- P. Gajo. Cross-lingual entity-recognition recipe annotation (20 min)
- A. Fedotova. EPTIC v2-Expanding an intermodal, multidirectional parallel corpus of European Parliament debates (20 min)
- P. Gajo. What can John do for you? (10 min)

16/02/24, 14:30 to 16:00, SESSION CANCELLED

02/02/24, 11:00 to 12:30, lab 10

Session 17
- K. Korre. On Translating Misogyny and Homophobia (30 min)
- E. Pistoia. Thesis Update: Sentence-pair classification with word embeddings (15 min)
- S. Bernardini. New Master’s course in Applied data science? (20 min)

19/01/24, 14:30 to 16:30, lab 9

Session 16
- P. Gajo. Entity alignment for named entity recognition in food recipes (30 min)
- N. Tedesco. A sociolinguistic perspective on digital nomad communities in Europe (35 min)

07/12/23, 15:00 to 17:00, lab TBD

Session 15
- Qiuqing Qin. Stop what you are doing and make a pause. 15 min
- Maja Maja Milicevic Petrovic. Measuring phraseology (summary of the PHRAME conference). 20 min
- (tentative) Alberto Barrón. On the definition and the automatic detection of hate speech - A tale of pulling translators into NLP

24/11/23, 15:00 to 17:00, lab 14

Session 14
- Qiuqing Qin. Collocation processing in writing and translation between Chinese and English: A corpus-based and keylogging analysis. 20 min
- E. Zucchini and C. Cervini. Interacting in intercomprehension settings: how to deal with plurilingual oral data. 20 min
- Eugenia Diegoli. Lexical Priming on Japanese: Evolutions, Evaluation, Extension. 15 min

10/11/23, 11:00 to 13:00, lab 6

Session 13
- Silvia Bernardini/Federico Garcea. Corpus approaches to news translation: Can we do better than comparable? 30 min
- Elton Pistolia. Comparable corpora and news translation (en-el). 10 min
- Olga Arsic. UPSKILLS 2.0. 10 min
- Paolo Gajo. Multilingual ingredient NER. 20 min
- Federico Garcea. !Trans on gastronmy (no) translation updates. 10 min

27/10/23, 15:00 to 16:30, lab 9

Session 12
- Adriano Ferraresi. Launching projects insights. 15 min
- Katerina Korre. Updates on hate speech findings. 20 min
- Alberto Barrón. Updates from EMT (+Incels at RANLP 2023). 25 min

13/10/23, 11:00 to 12:30, lab 6

Session 11
- Nannan Liu. Register shifts in political conference interpreting: A multidimensional analysis. 20 min
- Maja Milicevic. Highlights of CLARC 2023. 10 min
- Novella Tedesco. Survey on language an communication studies. 15 min

29/09/23, CANCELLED

CANCELLED

07/07/23, 11:00 to 12:30, lab 10

Session 10
- Novella Tedesco. Short updates (10 min)
- Alberto Barrón. WAKAMoLe FIS rehearsal (30 min)

09/06/23, 15:30 to 17:00, lab 13

Session 9
- Siyuan Liu. MICICL: data processing challenges (20 min)
- Alice Fedotova. Toward the Automatic Identification of Isotopies Based on Dialogue (20 min)
- Novella Tedesco. Research methods in ethnolinguistics & preliminary research on the European digital nomads community (20 min)

05/05/2023, 11:00 to 12:30, lab 9

Session 8
- Eleonora Zucchini. InterCom project: approaching data analysis (15 min)
- Paolo Gajo. On the use of ChatGPT (15 min)

21/04/23, 15:30 to 17:00, lab 13

Session 7

- Adriano Ferraresi. Updates from the EMT meeting (15 min)
- Alberto Barrón. What happened at ECIR 2023? (20 min)
- Mariachiara Russo. Upcoming Marie Curie project (15 min)

24/03/23, 15:30 to 17:00, lab 10

Session 6
- Fran Jañez Martino. Spotting propaganda techniques in spam emails (15 min)
- Francesco Fernicola. Latest advances in MT and its Evaluation + introducing the WMT2023 tasks (25 min)

10/03/23, 11:00 to 12:30, lab 13

Session 5
- Novella Tedesco. Overview of AitLA conference (15 min)
- Federico Garcea. Updates+demo on !Trans (30 min)
- Giuseppe Malara. Preliminary ideas on Human or Neural Translation: Theory and Application (10 min)
- Paolo Gajo. Updates on inceldom (10 min)

24/02/23, 15:30-17:00, lab 9

Fourth Session
- Lucia Baldi. Overview of the Convergence 2023 conference (45 minutes)
- Eleonora Zucchini. InterCom project: preliminary issues
- Quick updates and discussion

10/02/23, 15:00 to 16:30, lab 10

Third session.
- Elton Pistolia. Preliminary ideas at CLARIN ERIC
- Novella Tedesco - AVT paper updates
- Katerina Korre - Toxicity updates
- Alberto Barrón - Autextification shared task

27/01/23, 11:00-12:30, Lab 6

Second session of the COLITEC seminar, starring our participation at DAR's project on the analysis of medical TV dramas and the evaluation of transcription for interpreting
 
- Alice Fedotova - On the identification of narratives in medical series
- Novella Tedesco - PhD project definition + transcription evaluation

16/12/22, 15:30-17:30, Lab 9

The (re-)launching of the COLITEC seminar including updates on ongoing PhD research works and the presentation of preliminary ideas on the GastroWiki project and a MA thesis on the analysis of inceldom

- Katerina Korre - PhD updates
- Siyuan Liu - PhD project definition
- Francesco Fernicola - PhD updates
- Anna Zingaro - GastroWiki, first thoughts
- Paolo Gajo - Masters proposal on inceldom