Talks & Posters

[2023-11]Large Language Models and their use in research
Invited lecture, PhD course on STS methodologies.

[2023-11]De-identification of PDFs with multimodal transformers
CLEANUP seminar.

[2023-09]Store språkmodeller: en kort innføring
Invited presentation, KIN nettverksmøte om språkteknologi.

[2023-08]No labelled data? No problem! Weak supervision for NLP
Invited presentation, Peace Science Infrastructure (PSI) project.

[2023-06]Privacy-enhancing NLP: A Primer
Invited talk, MIKE conference.

[2023-06]Store språkmodeller: en kort innføring
Invited presentation, Wikborg & Rein.

[2023-06]Large Language Models: Challenges and Opportunities
DNB seminar on Ethical and Responsible AI.

[2023-05]Store språkmodeller: en kort innføring
Invited presentation, Telenor.

[2023-05]Store språkmodeller: en kort innføring
Invited talk, Den norske dataforening.

[2023-05]Privacy-enhancing NLP: A Primer
Invited talk, NLP4CALL, Nodalida 2023 (Faeroe Islands).

[2023-04]Two open challenges for Large Language Models
AI for breakfast seminar series @ Simula.

[2023-03]Who's in charge? Decision making in conversational robots
HRI Workshop on Human-Robot Conversational Interaction (Stockholm).

[2023-03]Skweak - weak supervision made easy for NLP
Invited talk, University of Gothenburg.

[2023-03]Privacy-enhancing NLP: A Primer
Invited talk, University of Gothenburg.

[2023-03]Språkteknologi: siste trender
BigInsight møte om ustrukturerte data.

[2023-02]Benefits and Applications of Large Language Models (LLMs)
CuttingEdge@AI on Large Language Models.

[2022-11]Neural language models applied to customer service dialogue
BigInsight Day.

[2022-11]The CLEANUP project
eHealth and Welfare Technologies and Service Research Projects Workshop.

[2022-09]Privacy-enhancing NLP
Dagstuhl seminar on Privacy in Speech and Language Technology.

[2022-05]Can we automatically anonymise text documents?
Cambridge Language Technology Seminar.

[2022-04]Can we anonymise unstructured data?
Finse Cyber-security Winter School.

[2021-09]Fremdrift i forskningsprosjekter
Invited presentation at Tekna seminar for researchers..

[2021-06]Anonymisation Models for Text Data: State of the art, Challenges and Future Directions
Paper presentation at 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (video).

[2021-08]skweak: Weak Supervision Made Easy for NLP
Poster at ACL 2021 (Demo session).

[2021-06]Anonymisation Models for Text Data: State of the art, Challenges and Future Directions
Paper presentation at NAACL 2021 Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing.

[2021-03]Språkteknologi: siste trender og vanlige fallgruver
Invited talk, National Library of Norway.

[2020-07]Named Entity Recognition without Labelled Data: A Weak Supervision Approach (with Jeremy Barnes, Aliaksandr Hubin and Samia Touileb)
Paper presentation at ACL 2020.

[2020-03]Developing NLP models without labelled data
Invited talk, Norsk Forening for Kvantitativ Finans.

[2019-05]Modélisation du dialogue: contrôle du dialogue et corpus multilingues
Invited seminar, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France. (Video)

[2019-02]Data-driven models of reputation for cyber-security
Seminar organised by Tekna on AI and cyber-threat intelligence (Video)

[2018-12]Bedre forskerkarriere
Dagseminar for postdoktorer, Forskerforbundet.

[2018-08]Tekstmining: en kort innføring
Metodeseminar, Norsk Evalueringsforening.

[2018-05]Data-driven models of reputation in cyber-security
Second Workshop on Text Analytics for Cyber-security and Online Safety (TACOS), LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.

[2018-05]OpenSubtitles 2018: Statistical Rescoring of Sentence Alignments in Large, Noisy Parallel Corpora (with Jörg Tiedemann, Milen Kouylekov)
11th International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan.

[2018-05]Detecting machine-translated subtitles in large parallel corpora (with A Seza Dogruöz)
11th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), LREC 2017, Miyazaki, Japan.

[2018-05]Modélisation du dialogue: systèmes de dialogue parlé et corpora multilingues
CENTAL Seminar, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

[2018-02]SAFERS: talegjenkjenning of maskinlæring for nødmeldetjenester
AMIS Forum.

[2017-05]Redefining Context Windows for Word Embedding Models: An Experimental Study (with Andrey Kutuzov)
21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2017), Göteborg, Sweden.

[2017-12]Neural reputation models learned from passive DNS data (with Vasileios Mavroeidis)
IEEE BigData 2017, Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber-crime Investigation & Prevention, Boston, USA.

[2017-11]Automatic Detection of Malware-Generated Domains with Recurrent Neural Models (with Vasileios Mavroeidis)
Norwegian Information Security Conference (NISK 2017), Oslo, Norway.

[2017-09]SAFERS: kan taleteknologi og maskinlæring brukes for å effektivisere nødmeldetjenester?
IKT-Forum (organised as part as AmbulanseForum 2017), Gardermoen, Norway.

[2017-08]Not All Dialogues are Created Equal: Instance Weighting for Neural Conversational Models (with Serge Bibauw)
18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2017), Saarbrücken, Germany.

[2016-12]Automatic Turn Segmentation for Movie and TV Subtitles (with Raveesh Meena)
Poster at the 2016 Spoken Language Technology Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA.

[2016-12]Dialogue modelling: small data and big data
Invited talk at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

[2016-11]Automatic Turn Segmentation for Movie and TV Subtitles (with Raveesh Meena)
Invited talk, LTG group seminar, University of Oslo.

[2016-08]OpenDial: A Toolkit for Developing Dialogue Systems with Probabilistic Rules (with Casey Kennington)
ACL 2016, Berlin.

[2016-05]Robust dialogue management + dialogue modelling for MT
10th Swedish Dialogue Workshop, Göteborg.

[2016-05]A short introduction to statistical machine translation
Oslo Maskinlæring meetup, Teknologihuset.

[2016-02]OpenSubtitles 2016: Extracting large parallel corpora from movie/TV subtitles (with Jörg Tiedemann)
Internal LTG seminar.

[2015-12]Dialogue Management with Probabilistic Rules
Invited talk, KTH, Stockholm.

[2015-08]OpenDial: a toolkit to develop spoken dialogue systems with probabilistic rules (with Casey Kennington)
19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Göteborg, Sweden.

[2015-08]Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: Experiments in classification and interpretation (with Paolo Dragone)
19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Göteborg, Sweden.

[2015-08]Structured Probabilistic Modelling for Dialogue Management
ESSLLI Workshop on logical and probabilistic approaches to dialogue modelling, Barcelona.

[2014-11]Dialogue Management with Probabilistic Rules
Invited talk, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

[2014-08]An Intelligent Tutoring System for Learning Chinese with a Cognitive Model of the Learner (with Michał Kosek)
EUROCALL 2014 conference, Groningen, the Netherlands.
[Best Student Poster Award]

[2014-05]Dialogue Management with Probabilistic Rules
Invited talk, University of Göteborg, Sweden.

[2014-02]Structured Probabilistic Modelling for Dialogue Management
Doctoral defense, University of Oslo, Norway.

[2014-02]Multimodal Aspects of Stochastic Interaction Management
Trial Lecture, University of Oslo, Norway.

[2014-01]Dialogue Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation
Internal LTG seminar.

[2013-08]Model-based Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management
Oral presentation at the 14th International Conference of the Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2013), Lyon, France.

[2012-11]Towards Online Planning for Dialogue Management with Rich Domain Knowledge
International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS 2012), Ermenonville, France.

[2012-11]Dialogue Management with Probabilistic Rules
Invited talk, LORIA research centre, Nancy, France.

[2012-10]Agile Software Development: What can we learn as researchers?
LTG tech talks.

[2012-10]Towards Dialogue Management in Relational Domains
Workshop on Action, Perception and Language (APL), Lund, Sweden.

[2012-10]Introduction to Machine Learning
Invited talk at the Institute for Behavioural Sciences, Høyskolen i Oslo og Akershus.

[2012-09]Declarative Design of Spoken Dialogue Systems with Probabilistic Rules
Oral presentation at the 16th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Paris, France.

[2012-07]Probabilistic Dialogue Models with Prior Domain Knowledge
Oral presentation at the 13th SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Seoul, South Korea.
[Video of the talk]

[2012-07]OpenDial: a dialogue systems toolkit based on probabilistic rules
Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS 2012)., Seoul, South Korea.

[2011-11]Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning
Presentation for the INFO9830 course.

[2011-11]Selected topics in Spoken Dialogue Processing
Internal LTG seminar.

[2011-06]Multi-policy Dialogue Management
Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems and 12th SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, Portland, Oregon.
[Best Poster Award at YRRSDS]

[2011-05]Selected topics from cognitive science (and their relevance to language technology)
Internal LTG seminar.

[2011-03]Dialogue management using a mixture of designed and learned policies
Interdisciplinary College (IK 2011), Gönne, Germany.

[2011-01]Dialogue management for rich, open-ended domains
Internal LTG seminar.

[2010-07]Towards relational POMDPs for adaptive dialogue management
Student Research Workshop of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Uppsala, Sweden.

[2010-01]Dora the explorer: A mobile robot motivated by curiosity (with Alper Aydemir, Michael Brenner, Moritz Göbelbecker, Marc Hanheide, Nick Hawes, Patric Jensfelt, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Kristoffer Sjoö, Jeremy Wyatt, Hendrik Zender, and Michael Zillich)
4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2010), Poster Session, Zürich, Switzerland.

[2009-09]Robust Processing of Spoken Situated Dialogue
1st International Summer School of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association, Cortona, Italy.
[ see also the accompanying poster]

[2009-07]Efficient CCG parsing of Spoken Dialogue For Human-Robot Interaction (with Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)
ESSLLI Workshop on Parsing with Categorial Grammars, Bordeaux, France.

[2009-06]A new design for the CogX binder
Integration camp for the DORA scenario, Stockholm, Sweden.

[2009-06]Incremental Processing of Spoken Dialogue For Human-Robot Interaction (with Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)
Workshop on Incrementality in Verbal Interaction, Universität Bielefeld, Germany.

[2009-03]Robust Processing of Situated Spoken Dialogue (with Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)
Semantic Representation of Spoken Language Workshop (SRSL'09), Athens, Greece.

[2009-03]Vers la conception de robots conversationnels
Invited talk, Centre de Traitement Automatique du Langage (CENTAL), UCL, Belgium.

[2008-11]Robust Processing of Situated Spoken Dialogue
Presentation of M.Sc. thesis, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.

[2008-08]A salience-driven approach to speech recognition for human-robot interaction (with Geert-Jan M. Kruijff)
13th ESSLLI Student Session, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
[Best Paper Award, 2nd place]

[2008-05]Robust spoken dialogue comprehension for human robot interaction
43. Studentische Tagung der Sprachwissenschaft, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

[2008-03]A salience-driven approach to speech recognition for human-robot interaction
Interdisciplinary college (IK 2008), Gönne, Germany.

[2008-01]Segmented Discourse Representation Theory: Dynamic Semantics with Discourse Structure
Seminar on Computational Models of Discourse.

[2007-10]How to make talking robots
Student session of the M.Sc. preparatory course.

[2007-05]Action Sentence Compatibility Effect: Two experiments on motor resonance in language comprehension
Seminar on Language and Embodiment.

[2007-04]Implémentation d'une Interface Sémantique-Syntaxe basée sur des Grammaires d'Unification Polarisées
Colloquium of the Doctoral School in anguage Sciences, Université Paris 7, Paris, France.

[2007-02]Bubble Trees: a Dependency Grammar Approach to Coordination
Seminar on Coordination.

[2006-09]Implémentation d'une Interface Sémantique-Syntaxe basée sur des Grammaires d'Unification Polarisées
Presentation of M.Sc. thesis, UCL, Belgium.