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<p>Those of you who were in Oslo for the last workshop will remember
an excellent short presentation from Javier de la Rosa, where we
got an introduction to some of the work going on in the National
Library of Norway with LLMS. Our colleagues in the Basque Center
for Language Technology are now offering an opportunity to hear
more from Javier next week - see below.<br>
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<p>We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language
Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI<
(<a href="https://hitz.eus" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://hitz.eus</a>).
You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for
upcoming webinars here: <a href="http://www.hitz.eus/webinars" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.hitz.eus/webinars</a></p>
<p>Next webinar:</p>
<p> <b>Speaker:</b> Javier de la Rosa - Artificial Intelligence Lab
(National Library of Norway)<br>
<b>Title:</b> The Mímir Project: Impact of copyrighted materials
in LLMs<br>
<b>Date: </b> Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 15:00<br>
<b>Summary:</b> The Mímir Project is an initiative by the
Norwegian government that aims to assess the significance and
influence of copyrighted materials in the development and
performance of generative large language models (LLMs) tailored to
the Norwegian languages. This collaborative effort involves three
leading institutions from different regions of the country: the
National Library of Norway (NB), the University of Oslo (UiO), and
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); each
contributing unique expertise in language technology, corpus
curation, model training, copyright law, and computational
linguistics. The ultimate goal of the project was to gather
empirical evidence that informed the formulation of a compensation
scheme for authors whose works are utilized by these advanced
artificial intelligence (AI) systems, ensuring that intellectual
property rights are respected and adequately compensated.</p>
<p> <b>Bio:</b> Javier de la Rosa is a Research Scientist at the
Artificial Intelligence Lab at the National Library of Norway. A
former Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Language Processing at UNED,
he holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies with a specialization in
Digital Humanities by the University of Western Ontario, and a
Masters in Artificial Intelligence by the University of Seville.
Javier has previously worked as a Research Engineer at the
Stanford University, and as the Technical Lead at the University
of Western Ontario CulturePlex Lab. He is interested in Natural
Language Processing applied to historical and literary text, with
a special focus on large language models.<br>
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Upcoming webinars:</b><br>
· Ekaterina Shutova (January 30, 2025)<br>
· Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025)<br>
· Christian Herff (Thursday, March 6, 2025)</p>
<p>If you are interested in participating, please complete this
registration form: <a href="http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea</a></p>
<p>If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of
the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration
form instead: <a href="http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info</a></p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>HiTZ Zentroa</p>
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Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford
National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk">martin.wynne@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530</a></pre>
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