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Welcome back event
16 January 2025

23 January: ECC Welcome back event

Kicking Off the Early Career Community Winter Season

We’re excited to open our winter season of events with an evening filled with fascinating flash talks, lively discussions, and delightful nibbles! This is a great opportunity to share ideas, connect with others, and unwind in a friendly atmosphere.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Date: Thursday, 23 January
Venue: The Castle Inn
Time: 6:00 PM

Speakers

Hannah Claus

Hannah Claus

LLMs in low-resource languages

Current LLMs work really well in English and several other European languages. Most languages in Africa, Asia, and South America though have less representation on the internet, thus less available training data. This leads to language communities with lower resources either having to accept the status quo or using models in English. However, these language communities are also being forced to adapt Anglo-centric views to attempt to compete with the rest of the better-represented language communities. The solution is not just to collect more data and retrain the models, there needs to be a far more complex approach, which also includes socio-technical aspects and empowering low-resource language communities to claim scientific ownership over their own language and connected identity.

Nichita Costea

Nichita Costea

What is Discovery?

What if librarians run the internet? My master’s dissertation seeks to answer this, providing a modest imaginary of information systems that enhance our autonomy. Borrowing the idea of ‘discovery systems’ from library and information science, I aim to develop it in a historical and a political dimension, weaponizing it against the user-developer dichotomy that rules web 2.0, as a tool that can make our digital networks more visible and less totalising.