Fecha y hora: 24/04/25, 5pm CEST
Ponentes: Pablo Gervás Gómez-Navarro, Computer Science Faculty / Institute of Knowledge Technology / Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences Complutense University of Madrid
Presenter: Horacio Saggion
Abstract:
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has redefined the boundaries of natural language processing. Tasks that researchers have been working on for years can now be solved effortlessly. However, the scale and cost of neural computing put certain types of research on these topics beyond the reach of most academic researchers. The floodgates are therefore open to finding new problems that defy simple solutions using LLMs. In this talk, I propose that we look for challenges that once seemed impossible but may now be feasible. The processing of narrative presents many of these challenges. The talk will review some of the outstanding problems in the computational processing of narrative, both in terms of analysis and generation. For these problems, the conceptual features of these problems that can constitute difficult challenges for neural processing will be explored. Current efforts to address these problems will be discussed, both to compile the insights they have uncovered and to establish them as useful reference starting points for any subsequent research.
Reseña biográfica: Pablo Gervás has been working for 20 years at the intersection of language and computation, attempting to model the way people use language to communicate, enabling the construction of artificial solutions that serve similar purposes. His work has included developing applications capable of explaining data in the form of stories, automatically generating poetry and narrative, and modeling creative processes in literature. Pablo Gervás holds a PhD from Imperial College London and a BA in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a professor of computational creativity and natural language processing at the School of Computer Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, and was director of the Institute of Knowledge Technology for eight years. He currently actively collaborates with the Complutense Institute of Musical Sciences on the analysis and performance of opera librettos. He is also the coordinator of the Community of Madrid node of the Clariah.es network, which promotes Spanish participation in the European digital research infrastructures Clarin and Dariah. He has participated in computational creativity projects funded by the European Commission and has directed projects under the National Research Plan on applications of natural language processing and generation. He has been a pioneer in creative text generation. As a result of his research over the years, his program, PropperWryter, was used to construct the plot of the musical "Beyond the Fence," the first computer-generated musical, which premiered in London's West End in February 2016. Poems generated by the WASP program have been presented at poetry festivals such as the Globe Road Poetry Festival in London (2015) and the Poetas Festival (Matadero Madrid, 2017). He is currently researching automatic narrative processing and the development of conversational agents based on hybrid symbolic-neural technologies for interactive learning environments.
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