13 July 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Brigitte Krenn (OFAI)
Robots as Social Agents: Between Construct and Reality
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As soon as we humans encounter other agents, be it our pet animals or robots we collaborate with, we cannot help but act socially and interpret our vis-à-vis as social agents. This is because we are trained as social beings from the beginning of our life. We have learned to interpret nonverbal signals sent by our fellow humans as communicative cues, including facial expressions, gestures and body postures, the direction of eye gaze, as well as proximity relations. Being who we are, we tend to overestimate and misinterpret current robots and AI systems regarding their communicative intents. The talk will address this phenomenon from a perspective of human communication and present examples from a selection of robotics research projects, studying human-robot interaction in different application contexts.
How to attend: To be announced: https://www.ofai.at/events/lectures2022
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The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) is
delighted to announce its 2022 Lecture Series, featuring an eclectic
lineup of internal and external speakers.
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The talks are intended to familiarize attendees with the latest research
developments in AI and related fields, and to forge new connections with
those working in other areas.
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Most lectures (see prospective schedule below) will take place on
Wednesdays at 18:30 Central European (Summer) Time. All lectures will
be held online via Zoom; in-person attendance at OFAI is also possible
for certain lectures. Talks typically last from 30 to 50 minutes and
are followed by up to 30 minutes for questions.
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Attendance is open to the public and free of charge. No registration is
required.
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Connection details for the individual talks will be sent out via our
usual mailing list (subscribe at https://www.ofai.at/newsletter.html)
and will also be posted at https://www.ofai.at/lectures.
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Schedule:
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20 July 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Tristan Miller (OFAI)
What’s in a Pun? Assessing the Relationship Between Phonological and
Semantic Distance and Perceived Funniness of Punning Jokes
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27 July 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Katrien Beuls (Universite de Namur)
Unravelling the Computational Mechanisms Underlying the Emergence of
Human-like Communication Systems in Populations of Autonomous Agents
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7 September 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Steffen Eger (Bielefeld University)
Text Generation for the Humanities
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14 September 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Antti Arppe (University of Alberta)
Finding Words that Aren’t There: Using Word Embeddings to Improve
Dictionary Search for Low-resource Languages
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21 September 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Roman Pflugfelder (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
(Title to be announced)
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28 September 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Raphael Deimel (TU Wien)
Towards Intuitive Object Handovers Between Humans and Robots
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5 October 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Christoph Scheepers (University of Glasgow)
The “Crossword Effect” in Free Word Recall: A Retrieval Advantage for
Words Encoded in Line with their Spatial Associations
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12 October 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Karen Fort (Sorbonne Université)
(Title to be announced)
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19 October 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Benjamin Roth (University of Vienna)
Evaluation and Learning with Structured Test Sets
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25 October 2022 @ 18:30 CEST
Peter Hallman (OFAI)
Comparatives in Arabic
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2 November 2022 @ 18:30 CET
Stephanie Gross (OFAI)
(Title to be announced)
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9 November 2022 @ 18:30 CET
Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato)
The World is not IID: Learning from Data Streams to the Rescue
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16 November 2022 @ 18:30 CET
Paolo Petta (OFAI)
(Title and abstract to be announced)
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