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Invitation to the Hermann Paul Lecture 2025
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce this year´s Hermann Paul lecture, the highlight of our academic calender here in Freiburg. We are equally happy to announce our speaker and topic:
Human-centered LLMs for Inclusive Language Technology
Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank
LMU München
The lecture will be held in English.
Date: 03.07.2025
Time: 6 pm
Place: FRIAS Gebäude, Seminarraum EG, Albertstraße 19
We cordially invite all professors, researchers, and students to participate. Prof. Dr. Plank will discuss how human-centered approaches in the development of large language models (LLMs) can contribute to promoting inclusive language technologies. Following the lecture, there will be a reception offering an opportunity for discussion and exchange to jointly explore current questions and ideas.
Lecture Series "Language, Communication & Cognition"
We invite you to the lecture series "Language, Communication & Cognition". Researchers from Freiburg and guests present their research in weekly meetings. The lecture takes place on Thursdays, 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. at Platz der Universität 3, HS 1098.
Everyone interested in linguistics is invited to join! The lecture series is a platform to exchange ideas, present current research and get creative together.
The program and further information can be found here. All lectures can be found in the HPCL Event Calender.
Past Events
Zur Sprache kommen: Visualising Research on Endangered Languages
The Department of General Linguistics organized an exhibition on linguistic fieldwork and endangered languages in collaboration with the Uniseum. The exhibition was open between June 13 and August 25, 2024. For more information on our past exhibition please click on this link: Zur Sprache kommen: Visualising Research on Endangered Languages — Department of General Linguistics (uni-freiburg.de)
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