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Special IR Seminar & Panel Discussion on LLMs in IR

Group: Information Retrieval (IR)
Speaker: Eugene Yang (Johns Hopkins University) and Maik Fröbe (University of Jena)
Date: 31 March, 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:30
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 422 Seminar Room

Mark your calendars! Dr. Eugene Yang and Maik Fröbe will be visiting us for a special IR Seminar. Each will give a talk on a timely topic in the field, and we'll wrap up with a panel discussion on the effect that large language models (like ChatGPT) will have on the field.

 

14:00-15:00 - Eugene Yang
From Monolingual Neural IR to Cross-Language and to Multi-Language IR

Eugene Yang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Georgetown University, where he specialized in High Recall Retrieval. Eugene's current research is focused on cross-language and multilingual retrieval. He is also a co-organizer of the TREC NeuCLIR track since 2022.

 

15:00-16:00 - Maik Fröbe
TIREx: The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform: Towards Reproducible Shared Tasks in IR

Maik Fröbe is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Matthias Hagen (University of Halle: 2019 to 2022, University of Jena: 2022 till today) and part of the webis network. Maik received his Bachelor's and Masters's in computer science at the University of Leipzig. His current research interests lie in Information Retrieval, particularly learning to rank, web archive mining, and near-duplicate detection and its impact on IR evaluation. Maik is an active developer of the TIRA.io platform, which improved the reproducibility of a number of shared tasks and has an archive of more than 500 research prototypes.

 

16:00-16:30
Panel Discussion on large language models in IR

Upcoming events

Special IR Seminar & Panel Discussion on LLMs in IR

Group: Information Retrieval (IR)
Speaker: Eugene Yang (Johns Hopkins University) and Maik Fröbe (University of Jena)
Date: 31 March, 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:30
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 422 Seminar Room

Mark your calendars! Dr. Eugene Yang and Maik Fröbe will be visiting us for a special IR Seminar. Each will give a talk on a timely topic in the field, and we'll wrap up with a panel discussion on the effect that large language models (like ChatGPT) will have on the field.

 

14:00-15:00 - Eugene Yang
From Monolingual Neural IR to Cross-Language and to Multi-Language IR

Eugene Yang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Georgetown University, where he specialized in High Recall Retrieval. Eugene's current research is focused on cross-language and multilingual retrieval. He is also a co-organizer of the TREC NeuCLIR track since 2022.

 

15:00-16:00 - Maik Fröbe
TIREx: The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform: Towards Reproducible Shared Tasks in IR

Maik Fröbe is a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Matthias Hagen (University of Halle: 2019 to 2022, University of Jena: 2022 till today) and part of the webis network. Maik received his Bachelor's and Masters's in computer science at the University of Leipzig. His current research interests lie in Information Retrieval, particularly learning to rank, web archive mining, and near-duplicate detection and its impact on IR evaluation. Maik is an active developer of the TIRA.io platform, which improved the reproducibility of a number of shared tasks and has an archive of more than 500 research prototypes.

 

16:00-16:30
Panel Discussion on large language models in IR

FATA Seminar: MSci Project Talks

Group: Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA)
Speaker: -
Date: 11 April, 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Room 422, SAWB

Abstract TBC

Capabilities for Coders

Group: Programming Languages at University of Glasgow (PLUG)
Speaker: Jeremy Singer, University of Glasgow
Date: 12 April, 2023
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Lilybank Gardens, F121 Conference Room

SICSA HCI Research Theme: SICSA Pre-CHI Day 2023

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 14 April, 2023
Time: 09:00 - 13:00
Location: School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, ,

This year’s SICSA Pre-CHI day will be held on Friday, 14th April, in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. The Pre-CHI day is a chance for us all to see the world-leading research going on across Scotland, celebrate the Scottish HCI community, and allow those not travelling to Hamburg to talk to authors first-hand. It is a great way to experience a snapshot of CHI close to home.   Over the day, we will have presentations from ACM CHI 2023 full paper authors, with late-breaking and other track papers if we have time. There will be a zoom option if we want to attend remotely.   For now, please put your accepted CHI papers in the Google doc so we know who wants to present what: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cLg6JtbGitWhJkkTJF1Jf7UtEkYZTFnRwNxf4WNT8Qo/edit?usp=sharing

Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment, Specialization: On the Source of Large Language Model Abilities

Group: Information Retrieval (IR)
Speaker: Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh
Date: 17 April, 2023
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 422 Seminar Room

Abstract

Recently, the field has been greatly impressed and inspired by Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3.5. The LLMs' multi-dimensional abilities are significantly beyond many NLP researchers’ and practitioners’ expectations and thus reshaping the research paradigm of NLP. A natural question is how LLMs get there, and where these fantastic abilities come from. In this talk we try to dissect the strong LLM abilities and trace them to their sources, hoping to give a comprehensive roadmap about the evolution of LLMs.

 

Bio

Yao Fu is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh. Previously he finished his M.S. in Columbia University and B.S. in Peking University. Yao studies large scale probabilistic generative models for human language. His research interests include language model evolution, complex reasoning, and how to inject strong abilities to language models from first principles. 

FATA Seminar

Group: Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA)
Speaker: Mike Vollmer, Tori Vollmer, University of Kent
Date: 18 April, 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Room 422, SAWB

Abstract TBC

Title TBA

Group: Programming Languages at University of Glasgow (PLUG)
Speaker: Mike Vollmer, University of Kent
Date: 19 April, 2023
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Lilybank Gardens, F121 Conference Room

FATA Seminar - Special Delivery: Programming with Mailbox Types

Group: Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA)
Speaker: Simon Fowler, University of Glasgow
Date: 25 April, 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Room 422, SAWB

The asynchronous and unidirectional communication model supported by mailboxes is a key reason for the success of actor languages like Erlang and Elixir for implementing reliable and scalable distributed systems. While many actors may send messages to some actor, only the actor may (selectively) receive from its mailbox. Although actors eliminate many of the issues stemming from shared memory concurrency, they remain vulnerable to communication errors such as protocol violations and deadlocks.
 
Mailbox types are a novel behavioural type system for mailboxes first introduced for a process calculus by de'Liguoro and Padovani in 2018, which capture the contents of a mailbox as a commutative regular expression. Due to aliasing and nested evaluation contexts, moving from a process calculus to a programming language is challenging. This paper presents Pat, the first programming language design incorporating mailbox types, and describes an algorithmic type system. We make essential use of quasi-linear typing to tame some of the complexity introduced by aliasing. Our algorithmic type system is necessarily co-contextual, achieved through a novel use of backwards bidirectional typing, and we prove it sound and complete with respect to our declarative type system. We implement a prototype type checker, and use it to demonstrate the expressiveness of Pat on a factory automation case study and a series of examples from the Savina actor benchmark suite.
 
[joint work with Duncan Paul Attard, Franciszek Sowul, Simon J. Gay, and Phil Trinder]

Title TBA

Group: Programming Languages at University of Glasgow (PLUG)
Speaker: Vikraman Choudhury
Date: 03 May, 2023
Time: 08:45 - 09:45
Location: Lilybank Gardens, F121 Conference Room

BMW Research Talk

Group: Knowledge & Data Engineering Systems Group
Speaker: Dr Natascha Weber, BMW Group
Date: 05 May, 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/89017343080

Guest Talk by Dr N Weber, BMW Group

To be added

Group: Understandable Autonomous Systems
Speaker: Dr. Natascha Harth, BMW
Date: 05 May, 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Room 422, SAWB

To be added

FATA Seminar

Group: Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA)
Speaker: Gergely Csáji, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Date: 16 May, 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Room 422, SAWB

Abstract TBC

To be decides

Group: Understandable Autonomous Systems
Speaker: Dr. Barry Porter, Lancaster University
Date: 09 June, 2023
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: Room 422, SAWB

to be added

AudioMostly'23

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 29 August, 2023
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
Location: Edinburgh Napier University, ,

Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its annual gatherings bring together thinkers and doers from academia and industry that share an interest in sonic interaction and the use of audio for interface design. This remit covers product design, auditory display, computer games and virtual environments, new musical instruments, and education and workplace tools. It further includes fields such as the psychology of sound and music, cultural studies, system engineering, and everything in between in which sonic interaction plays a role. AudioMostly'23 calls for Papers, Demos, Workshops, and Music & Installations on all of the above topics with a special focus on perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction. An extended list of topics can be found in the call for contributions section. Attendees will expect a full program including 4 days of paper, poster and demo sessions, talks, installations, and concerts. The event will take place on-site. With this year's conference theme Embodied Sound in Virtual Realities we intend to inspire new thoughts at the intersection of sound design and embodied interactions in virtual environments (AR/VR/MR/XR). Sound design can play a crucial role in supporting immersive experiences and fostering seamless ‘natural’ embodied interactions with the virtual and real world. Interactions with the virtual are fostered through the continuous development of devices (wearables and hearables) and their applications in interactive experiences (games, exhibitions, installations, tours, etc.). Although technologies enable interaction with the virtual through bodily gestures, there is a paucity of auditory feedback to fully support these interactions at the intersection between the real and the virtual. How do we support these interactions through sound? How sound impacts our virtual experience and presence?   Please visit the conference website for more information, including schedule and registration!

SICSA Sponsored Conference: AudioMostly'23

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 29 August, 2023
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
Location: Edinburgh Napier University, ,

Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its annual gatherings bring together thinkers and doers from academia and industry that share an interest in sonic interaction and the use of audio for interface design. This remit covers product design, auditory display, computer games and virtual environments, new musical instruments, and education and workplace tools. It further includes fields such as the psychology of sound and music, cultural studies, system engineering, and everything in between in which sonic interaction plays a role. AudioMostly'23 calls for Papers, Demos, Workshops, and Music & Installations on all of the above topics with a special focus on perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction. An extended list of topics can be found in the call for contributions section. Attendees will expect a full program including 4 days of paper, poster and demo sessions, talks, installations, and concerts. The event will take place on-site. With this year's conference theme Embodied Sound in Virtual Realities we intend to inspire new thoughts at the intersection of sound design and embodied interactions in virtual environments (AR/VR/MR/XR). Sound design can play a crucial role in supporting immersive experiences and fostering seamless ‘natural’ embodied interactions with the virtual and real world. Interactions with the virtual are fostered through the continuous development of devices (wearables and hearables) and their applications in interactive experiences (games, exhibitions, installations, tours, etc.). Although technologies enable interaction with the virtual through bodily gestures, there is a paucity of auditory feedback to fully support these interactions at the intersection between the real and the virtual. How do we support these interactions through sound? How sound impacts our virtual experience and presence?   Please visit the conference website for more information, including schedule and registration!

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