ELLIS Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition

4 June 2025 | Online via ZOOM
13:00 – 16:30 CEST

The workshop is co-organized by the ELLIS Unit Prague and ELLIS Associate Unit Lviv

Please register for the workshop to receive a Zoom link a few days before the workshop.

Objective:

The objective of this online workshop is to discuss recent scientific advances in the areas of natural language processing and speech recognition.

Organisers:

With questions please feel free to reach to Rostyslav Hryniv, ELLIS Associate Unit Lviv, and Josef Sivic, ELLIS Unit Prague.

Agenda:

Each presentation slot is 30mins with a suggested 20-25 mins for presentation and 5-10 mins for questions and discussion. All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST).

13:00-14:30 Session I

  • Iryna Gurevych Fact or Fiction: How to Spot and Debunk Misleading Content?
  • Barbara Plank – Reasoning, Ambiguity, and Control in LLMs: Probing the Edges of What They Know
  • Mykola Trokhymovych Advancing Open Knowledge: NLP for Accessibility, Fairness, and Knowledge Integrity in Collaborative Platforms

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:30 Session II

  • Alessandro Raganato  – Imagine the Unknown: Blending Concepts with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
  • Oldrich PlchotApproaching Dialogue State Tracking via Aligning Speech Encoders and LLMs
  • Yehor Smoliakov  Current State of Ukrainian Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech Technologies

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This event is supported by the ELIAS project – European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability.