Conferences / Workshops

2nd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2024 (AthNLP 2024), 19 - 25 September 2024

AUEB's Department of Informatics co-organized the "2nd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School 2024" (AthNLP 2024), which took place from 19 to 25 September 2024 at the campus of NCSR "Demokritos". The school covered a wide range of Natural Language Processing topics, focusing on machine learning methods, especially Deep Learning and Large Language Models.

The organizing committee included, from AUEB's side, Professor Ion Androutsopoulos, Associate Professor Themos Stafylakis and Assistant Professor John Pavlopoulos.

https://athnlp.github.io/2024

ML4AL: The Machine Learning for Ancient Languages Workshop (ACL 2024 Workshops), 15 August 2024

The aim of the ML4AL Workshop was to inspire collaboration and support research momentum in the emerging field of Machine Learning for the study of ancient texts.

Ancient languages preserve the cultures and histories of the past. However, their study is fraught with difficulties, and experts must tackle a range of challenging text-based tasks, from deciphering lost languages to restoring damaged inscriptions, to determining the authorship of works of literature. Technological aids have long supported the study of ancient texts, but in recent years advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have enabled analyses on ancient languages on an unprecedented scale and in unparalleled detail. The ML4AL workshop showcased the scientific opportunities at the intersection of the Humanities and ML, and spotlighted promising directions for future endeavours within this rising field.

The workshop took place on 15 August 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand & remote, as part of the The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024).

The organizing committee included, from AUEB's side, Assistant Professor John Pavlopoulos.

https://www.ml4al.com/index.html

https://2024.aclweb.org/program/workshops

Round Table 'Examples of Greek innovative economic activity in the cultural sector and discussion on emerging trends', 14 May 2024

In the framework of the event 'Culture and Economy', co-organized by AUEB and diaNEOsis, the UNESCO Chair on Digital Methods for the Humanities and Social Sciences coordinated the Round table discussion 'Examples of Greek innovative economic activity in the cultural sector and discussion on emerging trends'.

Coordinator: Panos Constantopoulos, Professor Emeritus & UNESCO Chairholder, AUEB

Speakers: Pantelis Kammas (Associate Professor, AUEB), Kostas Konstantinidis (Founder & CEO, PostScriptum), Yiannis Nikolopoulos (Co-Founder & CEO, Clio Muse SA), Georgios Papaioannou (Associate Professor, AUEB) and Dr. Andreas A. Vasilakis (Co-Founder & CEO, Phasmatic), Nikos Minadakis (Co-Founder & CEO, Advance Services)

More info (in Greek) and photos: https://www.aueb.gr/en/node/28557

The program of the event is available (in Greek) here: https://www.aueb.gr/el/content/politismos-oikonomia

The video of the event is available on AUEB's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izn7kWAxboQ