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Human Language Technology @ Augsburg

HLT @ Augsburg Retreat Summer Semester 2025

April 2 & April 3, 2024

Location: Alte Universität, Geb. F1, Raum 201 (parking available, Tram stop: Polizeipräsidium)



Wednesday, April 2

13:30 - 17:30 PhD Dissertation Writing Workshop (only for PhD students)

19:00 Workshop Dinner (everyone who registered)
Brauerei-Gaststätte Dreiköniginnen, Meister-Veits-Gäßchen 32, 86152 Augsburg


Thursday, April 3

08:45 - 9:00 Soft start with coffee and tea
9:00 - 09:15 Welcome (Anne)
09:15 - 10:00 Invited talk: Matthias Kraus (University of Augsburg, Research Associate at Chair of Human-Centered AI): Trust and Controllability in LLM-Powered Proactive Conversational Agents
10:00 - 10:30 Poster session 1
Fabio Mariani: New team member introduction: My PhD in Digital Humanities and Outlook
Benjamin Schüßler: Analyzing and improving the layperson readability of company climate reports (Master thesis proposal)
Wei Zhou: Global and Iterative reasoning in Table Question Answering
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee and tea break
10:45 - 11:05 Talk by Shuyuan Shen: Enhance trust-worthiness of LLM-Based social agent through self-calibration
11:05 - 11:25 Talk by Timo Schrader: Solver-Guided Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Answer Set Programming
11:30 - 12:00 Poster session 2
Georg Hofmann: Confidence Estimation for Extreme Multi-label Text Classification using Large Language Models (Master thesis proposal)
Nisa Büyükyildirim Onmaz: Talking AI: How Linguistic Strategies Shape AI-Generated Medical Communication
12:00 - 12:20 Talk by Hanna Schmück: More than the Sum of Their Words - Generating and Contrasting Large Linguistic Networks
12:20 - 12:40 Talk by Valentin Knappich: Evaluating Patent Generation
12:45 Group Photo (inner courtyard)
13:00Lunch at La Commedia