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Computational Linguistics @UPF
@colt-upf.bsky.social
Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni, Thomas Brochhagen, Iria de Dios Flores | Computational Linguistics and Linguistic Theory Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

upf.edu/web/colt
Barcelona
Great work by Xixian Liao, Thomas Brochhagen, @gboleda.bsky.social and @laiamayol.bsky.social !
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: 2nd June 2025, 14:30 - 19:00
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: UPF Poblenou, Auditori (enter via Roc Boronat building) maps.app.goo.gl/2WMt21hR5L9r...

In-person only, with mandatory registration:
tinyurl.com/colt-register

See you there!

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May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our speakers span a wide range of expertise between AI, linguistics, and neuroscience.

14:30 Arianna Bisazza (Uni. Groningen)
15:30 Naomi Saphra (Harvard)

-- coffee break --

17:00 Jean-Rémi King (Meta AI)
18:00 Louise McNally (UPF)

Abstracts: tinyurl.com/colt-site

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May 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Conclusion: for communication in-context,

Lexical systems with a soft mapping between referents and names let speakers maximize communication accuracy while minimizing complexity.

Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

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December 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM
We explored, for a color naming task, why a soft mapping between referents and words is a good solution for communication...

...by taking into account
1⃣ in-context communication
2⃣ the hierarchical structure of the lexicon

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December 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM