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[Archimedes NLP Theme Meeting] Human-centered Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

Dates
2025-04-28 17:30 - 18:30

Archimedes NLP Theme Meeting: PhD thesis presentation, Monday 28 April, 17:30-18:30 (Greek time)

Presenter: Tatiana Passali

Moderator: Grigorios Tsoumakas

Title: "Human-centered Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning"

Room: Theano, Archimedes Unit (1 Artemidos str., ART1 building, first floor)

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Abstract:

Despite the impressive progress of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), building truly human-centered systems remains a pressing challenge. In the context of automated summarization, recent advances have moved beyond generic summaries towards controllable and topic-controllable summarization models, enabling users to guide the content and focus of generated summaries. Alongside, text simplification and plain language summarization have gained importance to make information more accessible to audiences with varying levels of expertise, literacy or cognitive needs. Deep learning methods have shown remarkable capabilities in these tasks, yet current models often lack control and adaptability with diverse user requirements. Another related challenge lies in processing spontaneous speech, where disfluency detection improves the quality and robustness of downstream applications. However, the lack of annotated datasets, particularly in low-resource conversational settings, limits the development of accurate and robust disfluency detection models. This thesis introduces and explores methods for controllable summarization, text simplification and disfluency detection to advance NLP methods toward a more human-centered design.

 

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Vision

To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science

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Mission

To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world

 

Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 8 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

 
 

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The project “ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms” with code OPS 5154714 is implemented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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