HLT Seminar

Winter Semester 2024/25

Wednesdays, 10am, at one of the following locations
UniA: U Augsburg, Main Campus, Building N, Room N1033 and Zoom
THA: TH Augsburg, Campus am Roten Tor, Building J, Room J1.19 and Zoom

Contact (WS24/25): Annemarie Friedrich (firstname dot lastname at uni minus a dot de)

October 16, 2024 [extra slot: 1pm, UniA, MRM]
Timo: PhD Midterm Presentation
Valentin: PhD Midterm Presentation


October 23, 2024 [UniA]
Sujin: final internship presentation - 30 minutes
Timo Schrader: QUITE: Quantifying Uncertainty in Natural Language Text in Bayesian Reasoning Scenarios (EMNLP Dry Run)

October 30, 2024 [UniA]
Leo Pöller: Corporate Climate Disclosures: Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Assess Corporate Environmental Agendas (Bachelor thesis interim presentations)
Jakob Prange: Preparations for Climate-NLP related Shared Task

November 06, 2024 [UniA]
Bachelor thesis final presentations
Daniel Neu: Prompt Ensembles for Annotation Error Detection with Large Language Models in Temporal Reasoning Datasets
Christian Jaumann: Ranking for Abstract Screening in Systematic Literature Reviews using Large Language Models

November 13, 2024 [UniA]
Valentin, Tobias: PhD updates

November 13, 2024 [extra slot, 17:30-19:00, UniA, room D-4056]
Aleksandra Tomaszewska (Polish Academy of Sciences) and Maria da Purificação Moura Silvano (University of Porto): Multilingual Discourse Relations Annotation in English, Polish, and Portuguese
(guest talk at the Interdisziplinäres Linguistisches Kolloquium Augsburg)

November 20, 2024 [UniA]
Bachelor thesis final presentation: Thomas Niemeier: Large Language Model based Information Extraction from Visually Rich Documents
Reading group papers:
Injecting Learnable Table Features into LLMs (under review at ICLR) - presented by Wei
A survey on large language model based autonomous agents (presented by Zahra)
Language Models Meet World Models: Embodied Experiences Enhance Language Models (Xiang et al, NeurIPS 2023) - presented by Viviana
Navigating the Grey Area: How Expressions of Uncertainty and Overconfidence Affect Language Models (Zhou et al., EMNLP 2023) - presented by Anne


November 27, 2024 [THA]
Lukas: PhD update
Viviana: Dry run for presentation in Pisa (Clic-IT)

December 04, 2024 [UniA]
Christian Chiarcos, From linked discourse marker lexicons to multilingual corpora

December 11, 2024 [THA]
S. Rudics (interim presentation, Master thesis)
P. Gaag (interim presentation, Master thesis)

December 18, 2024 [UniA]
Jenny: PhD updates (dry run for mid-PhD presentations)
Wei: PhD updates (dry run for mid-PhD presentations)

January 8, 2025 [tbd.]
Team Event: New Year's Brunch (instead of Christmas Party) - location to be announced


January 15, 2025 [UniA]
External speaker: Silvia Milano (LMU / University of Exeter, UK)

January 29, 2025 [THA]
Asma Shaikh (Fraunhofer IIS), eye-tracking and pupil dilation (guest talk, zoom only)

February 05, 2025 [THA]
M. Müller (Master thesis)
P. Gaag (Master thesis)
S. Rudics (Master thesis)