Keynote talk. November 28. Fine-grained Evaluation of Vision and Language Models (FINE) workshop at AI*IA 2024, Bolzano, Italy. "Not (yet) the whole story: The need for human-like evaluation of visual LLMs in multimodal communicative tasks".
Invited talk. October 29. Dealing with Meaning Variation in NLP (DeMeVa2) 2024, Utrecht, Netherlands. "Implicit and Underspecified Language as a Communicative Testbed for Large Language Models".
Invited talk. October 18. Generative AI in Future HRM, Amsterdam People Analytics Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Gen-AI and the future of HRM: Open challenges from NLP".
Keynote talk. October 1. Perspectives in NLP x Humanities, Cognition, and Social Sciences, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark. "Implicit and Underspecified Language as a Communicative Testbed for Large Language Models".
Keynote talk. September 13. MultiplEYE Mid-Term Conference (MuMiCo) 2024. "Leveraging gaze data in image description generation: Towards more human-like visually-grounded NLP models".
Keynote talk. August 15. Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) at ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand. "From semantic understanding to human-like communication: Implicit and underspecified language as a testbed for large language models".
Invited talk. May 24. Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands. "Dealing with implicit and underspecified language: A semantic challenge for large language models".
Invited talk. April 23. Uva AI x Cultural Production Seminar, Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Large Language Models as Interlocutors: Between Reliability and Deconstruction".
Invited talk. April 5. Fluido, Woerden, Netherlands. "From NLP to General Intelligence: Directions and Open Challenges".
Invited talk. March 13. HWU iLab, Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Scotland. "From Word Representation to Communicative Success: Beyond Image-Text Alignment in Language-and-Vision Modeling".
Invited talk. February 28. COLT Seminar, UPF, Barcelona, Spain. "Dealing with implicit and underspecified language: A semantic challenge for large language models".
Invited talk. February 26. Amazon, Barcelona, Spain. "Dealing with implicit and underspecified language: A semantic challenge for large language models".
Talk. January 25. Using computational models to bridge between neurobiology, psychology, and linguistic theory workshop, Nijmegen, Netherlands. "A Psycholinguistic Analysis of BERT's Representations of Compounds".
Poster. January 11. HumanCLAIM workshop, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands. "A Psycholinguistic Analysis of BERT's Representations of Compounds".
2023
Invited talk. November 3. Groningen Reading Group, Groningen, Netherlands. "From Word Representation to Communicative Success".
Keynote talk. September 22. LIMO workshop co-located with KONVENS, Ingolstadt, Germany. "From Word Representation to Communicative Success: The Need for Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis in Visually Grounded Language Processing".
Keynote talk. September 12. MM-NLG workshop co-located with INLG and SIGDial, Prague, Czech Republic. "Adaptation in the Realm of Visually Grounded Language: Of Speakers, Models, and Tasks".
Poster. July 11. ACL, Toronto, Canada. "Dealing with Semantic Underspecification in Multimodal NLP".
Invited talk. July 5. CBS Research Seminar, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, online. "Semantic representations of words in (multimodal) masked language models".
Invited talk. June 15. eScience Center, Amsterdam. "Semantic representations of words in (multimodal) masked language models".
Talk & Poster. May 3-4. EACL, Dubrovnik, Croatia. "A Psycholinguistic Analysis of BERT's Representations of Compounds".
Dissemination talk. April 2. University of Amsterdam. "A morning with ChatGPT: A discussion of generative language models and its impact on the university" with Jelle Zuidema, Jelke Bloem, and Marjolein Lanzing.
Dissemination talk. January 24. University of Amsterdam. "An afternoon with ChatGPT" with Jelle Zuidema, Jelke Bloem, and Raquel Fernández.
2022
Invited talk. November, 23. CONVERSATIONS, Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Controllable Text Generation for All Ages: Evaluating a Plug-and-Play Approach to Age-Adapted Dialogue".
Talk. June, 30. CLIC-it, Milan, Italy. "Detecting Age-Related Linguistic Patterns in Dialogue: Toward Adaptive Conversational Systems".
Invited talk. June, 22. BILS Seminar, University of Milano-Bicocca, online. "Modeling gradable adjectives leveraging visual contexts".
Talk & Poster. May, 23-25. ACL, Dublin, Ireland. "Word Representation Learning in Multimodal Pre-Trained Transformers: An Intrinsic Evaluation".
Invited talk. May, 17. CoSaQ final workshop, University of Amsterdam. "Semantic adaptation through active information seeking: A case study on gradable adjectives".
Invited talk. March, 7. CIMeC - University of Trento, Rovereto. "Visually-grounded semantics in multimodal Transformers (and humans)".
2021
Talk. December, 14. ILLC Colloquium, UvA, online. "Visually-grounded semantics in deep neural networks (and humans)".
Talk. June, 21. Three talks on topics in AI, UvA, online. "Integration of language and vision in multimodal pre-trained Transformers".
Talk. May, 7. MLC seminar, UvA, online. "Semantic adaptation to the interpretation of gradable adjectives via passive exposure and active information seeking".
Talk. March, 18. TAB meeting, online. "Be Different to Be Better! A Benchmark to Leverage the Complementarity of Language and Vision".
Poster. February, 24-25. ELLIS NLP workshop, online. "Be Different to Be Better! A Benchmark to Leverage the Complementarity of Language and Vision".
2020
Poster. November, 20. BlackBoxNLP at EMNLP, online. "Be Different to Be Better! A Benchmark to Leverage the Complementarity of Language and Vision".
Talk November, 17. EMNLP, online. "Refer, Reuse, Reduce: Generating Subsequent References in Visual and Conversational Contexts" (Joint presentation w/ E. Takmaz, M. Giulianelli, A. Sinclair, R. Fernández).
Poster. July, 30. CogSci, online. "Asking questions with a big impact: Adapting to other interpretations of gradable adjectives".
Poster. May, 18. GeCKo symposium, online. "Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts".
Talk. November, 6. EMNLP-IJCNLP, Hong Kong. "Is the Red Square Big? MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts".
Poster. November, 3. LANTERN at EMNLP-IJCNLP, Hong Kong. "Big Generalizations with Small Data: Exploring the Role of Training Samples in Learning Adjectives of Size".
Poster. August, 30. Interactive Minds, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. "MALeViC: Modeling Adjectives Leveraging Visual Contexts".
Talk. May, 6. BlackBoxNL, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. "Exploring (Multimodal) Model Abilities in Grounding Vague Expressions".
Talk. April, 2. ILLC Computational Linguistics Seminars, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Grounding Vague Expressions in Vision".
2018
Poster. September, 8. SiVL workshop at ECCV, Munich, Germany. "Be Different to Be Better: Toward the Integration of Language and Vision".
Poster. September, 7. SAP Machine Learning Retreat, Munich, Germany. "Be Different to Be Better: Toward the Integration of Language and Vision".
Talk. June, 2. NAACL-HLT, New Orleans, USA. "Comparatives, Quantifiers, Proportions: A Multi-Task Model for the Learning of Quantities from Vision".
Poster. May, 5. CAOS, Rovereto, Italy. "Comparatives, Quantifiers, Proportions: A Multi-Task Model for the Learning of Quantities from Vision".
Talk. March, 2. CIMeC Brown Bag, Rovereto, Italy. "Cognitively-Inspired Quantification in Vision: A Deep Learning Approach".
2017
Invited talk. November, 15. AMORE Seminar, Barcelona, Spain. "Learning to Quantify from Language and Vision: Insights from Behavioral and Computational Studies".
Invited talk. October, 24. ILLC Computational Linguistics Seminars, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Learning to Quantify from Language and Vision: Insights from Behavioral and Computational Studies".
Invited talk. September, 28. CoSaQ kick-off workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Quantifiers and Proportions in Language and Vision: Insights from Behavioral and Computational Studies" (Joint presentation w/ Raffaella Bernardi).
Poster. September, 26. Google NLP Summit, Zurich, Switzerland. "Be Precise or Fuzzy: Learning the Meaning of Cardinals and Quantifiers from Vision".
Talk. May, 5. Lectures on Computational Linguistics, Pavia, Italy. "Learning Quantity Expressions from Language and Vision".
Poster. April, 5. EACL, Valencia, Spain. "Be Precise or Fuzzy: Learning the Meaning of Cardinals and Quantifiers from Vision".
Poster. April, 3. CMCL at EACL, Valencia, Spain. "Be Precise or Fuzzy: Learning the Meaning of Cardinals and Quantifiers from Vision".
2016
Talk. December, 5. CLIC-it, Naples, Italy. "Learning to Quantify from Images".
Talk & Poster. August, 12. VL at ACL, Berlin, Germany. "Building a Bagpipe with a Bag and a Pipe: Exploring Conceptual Combination in Vision".
Talk & Poster. August, 12. VL at ACL, Berlin, Germany. "'Look, some green circles!': Learning to Quantify from Images".
Poster. July, 8. 5th CogEvo, Rovereto, Italy. "The Approximate Number System of an Artificial Neural Network".
Poster. May, 5. Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Antwerpen, Belgium. "Lexical families in Vision".
Poster. March, 21. iV&L Net Training School, Malta. "Lexical families in Vision".
2015
Talk. July, 12. First Quantitative Morphology Meeting, Belgrade, Serbia. "Capturing different classes of compound words: A new perspective from compositional distributional semantics".