{"id":40,"date":"2013-10-24T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sverberne.ruhosting.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T10:18:23","slug":"invited-talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/invited-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Keynote talk &#8220;Is the Search Engine of the Future a Chatbot?&#8221;, November 27, 2024, 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (<a href=\"https:\/\/event.cwi.nl\/ekaw2024\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EKAW-24<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Keynote talk &#8220;The role of truth in Large Language Models&#8221;, October 25, 2024 at <a href=\"https:\/\/alice-and-eve.github.io\/2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alice &amp; Eve 2024<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Keynote talk &#8220;Is the Search Engine of the Future a Chatbot?&#8221;, October 23, 2024 at the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (<a href=\"https:\/\/cikm2024.org\/keynote-speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CIKM 2024<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Keynote talk &#8220;Large Language Models in Healthcare: should we care more&#8221;?, June 13, 2024 at the 7th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/healtac2024.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealTAC<\/a>), Lancaster, UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3-AEOHoXCI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video recording on YouTube<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleuitwisseling.nl\/attachments\/grote-taalmodellen-in-de-zorg-een-zorg-minder-suzan-verberne-liacs-pdf.426\/?hash=7536577fd289c0646e62ffde689b1c42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grote taalmodellen in de zorg: een zorg minder?<\/a>&#8220;, January 29, 2024 at LLM in de zorg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutchhealthhub.nl\/artikel\/praktijktoets-helpt-generatieve-ai-in-zorg-verder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verslag<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk &#8220;Information search in the age of LLMs&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/events\/2023\/12\/sails-workshop-ai-and-llms-keeping-the-linguist-in-the-loop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SAILS Workshop: AI and LLMs: Keeping the Linguist in the Loop<\/a>, December 8, 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Keynote speech &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dir2023.github.io\/DIR2023\/#keynote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Information Retrieval in the age of Large Language Models<\/a>&#8220;, The 21st Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, November 27, 2023. TU Delft<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk &#8220;Transformers for information search: from document retrieval to source-grounded conversational agents&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeta-alpha.com\/events\/transformers-at-work-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transformers at Work<\/a>, September 15, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h3VPwmdNNxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video on YouTube<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk &#8220;\u2018Big models\u2019: the success and pitfalls of Transformer models in natural language processing&#8221;, NOTaS, March 17, 2023 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/big-models-the-success-and-pitfalls-of-transformer-models-in-natural-language-processing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Invited talks &#8220;Text mining for health knowledge discovery&#8221;:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ucrel-web.lancs.ac.uk\/crs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCREL seminar series<\/a>, Lancaster University, March 23, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OjhG_dT4_zo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video recording<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Women in Data Science (<a href=\"https:\/\/wids.nl\/event\/2022\/wids-leiden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WiDS<\/a>) symposium, Leiden, May 13, 2022<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"JtukPc\"><span id=\"rAECCd\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esciencecenter.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eScience center<\/a>, Natural Language Processing SIG Meeting, May 30, 2022<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Emerging technologies in medicine (<a href=\"https:\/\/etim.uk-essen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ETIM<\/a>): Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics, Essen, Germany, June 10, 2022 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/text-mining-for-health-knowledge-discovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Extracting Relevant Information From Text: Challenges and Solutions&#8221;. SAILS seminar, June 13, 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/video.leidenuniv.nl\/embed\/secure\/iframe\/entryId\/1_t2xwf7z0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video recording<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk in the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/sail-2021\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law:<\/a> &#8220;Explainable Legal Information Retrieval&#8221;, May 31, 2021 (online)<\/li>\n<li>Keynote lecture in the PhD seminar of CIEM &#8211; Centre for Integrated Emergency Management: &#8220;Social media analytics: combining text and network data&#8221;, April 15, 2021 (online)<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk at Georgetown CS: &#8220;Explainable Information Retrieval&#8221;, March 12, 2021 (online, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1BS96J0uoeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Invited talk in the Glasgow Information Retrieval group seminar: &#8220;Explainable Information Retrieval&#8221; , December 7, 2020 (online)<\/li>\n<li>Invited speaker in the The Tenth International Conference and Workshop on High Dimensional Data Analysis (<a href=\"http:\/\/hdda-x.fmipa.unpad.ac.id\/home\/programme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICW-HDDA-X<\/a>) 2020: &#8220;Social media analytics: combining text and network data&#8221;, October 13, 2020 (online).<\/li>\n<li>Invited speaker in the Lorentz workshop &#8220;the future on academic lexicography&#8221;, November 5, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/text-mining-for-lexicography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slides<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Invited speaker for the event &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/dezwijger.nl\/programma\/dit-wordt-het-nieuws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DIT WORDT HET NIEUWS<\/a>&#8216;, on the future of journalism.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluating Complex Information Needs.<br \/>\nInvited talk in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/interaction-in-information-retrieval-tickets-55960669870#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Interaction in Information Retrieval workshop<\/a>, 13 February 2019, Glasgow.<\/li>\n<li>Het nieuwe zoeken voor informatieprofessionals (in Dutch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/het-nieuwe-zoeken-voor-informatieprofessionals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>).<br \/>\nLecture at the KNVI conference for information professionals, December 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Kanker.nl &amp; Data Science (in Dutch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/data-science-kankernl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>).<br \/>\nLecture at 5-year anniversary of kanker.nl, a national information platform for cancer patients, June 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Empowerment processes in discussion groups, the use of text mining for analysis of discussion forums.<br \/>\nTalk in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcommunication.nl\/blog\/achc_digital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Symposium on Digitale (big) data en gezondheidscommunicatie<\/a>, Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC), June 2018<\/li>\n<li>Automatische classificatie van teksten (in Dutch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/automatische-classificatie-van-teksten-92668328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>).<br \/>\nLecture during <a href=\"https:\/\/vogin-ip-lezing.net\/programma-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VOGIN-IP<\/a> (national conference for information professionals), 28 March 2018<\/li>\n<li>Tutorial on word2vec (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/tutorial-on-word2vec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>) during &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/events\/2018\/03\/vectors-and-linguistics-a-workshop-on-word-embeddings\">Vectors and Linguistics: a workshop on word embeddings<\/a>&#8221; at the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities, March 2018<\/li>\n<li>Maakte Rembrandt wel eens een lachende selfie? (in Dutch).<br \/>\nLecture at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universiteitvannederland.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Universiteit van Nederland<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universiteitvannederland.nl\/college\/maakte-rembrandt-wel-eens-een-lachende-selfie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch video<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Personalized information search.<br \/>\nTalk during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esciencecenter.nl\/event\/program\/nlesc17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national eScience symposium<\/a>, session on the Future of Machine Learning, 12 October 2017<\/li>\n<li>Computationeel denken.<br \/>\nTalk during <a href=\"http:\/\/dhclinics.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DHClinics for librarians<\/a> (in Dutch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/computationeel-denken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>), 26 September 2017<\/li>\n<li>Automatic summarization of online discussions.<br \/>\nTalk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/nl-NL\/Data-Science-Northeast-Netherlands\/events\/235075778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data Science Northeast Netherlands<\/a>, 16 February 2017<\/li>\n<li>Automatische classificatie van teksten.<br \/>\nTutorial during NOTaS-meeting at the National Archives (In Dutch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/automatische-classificatie-van-teksten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>), 20 September 2016<\/li>\n<li>Extractive summarization of discussion forum threads<br \/>\nTalk at University of Groningen, March 2016<\/li>\n<li>Leer je digitale klanten kennen: hoe zoeken ze en wat vinden ze? (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/leer-je-digitale-klanten-kennen-hoe-zoeken-ze-en-wat-vinden-ze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View on slideshare<\/a>)<br \/>\nTalk at &#8220;Inspiratiedag digitale klantenkunde&#8221;, Archief 2.0, March 2013<\/li>\n<li>Automatic classification of political texts.<br \/>\nTalk at TextKernel, July 2012<\/li>\n<li>Search engines for the humanities that go beyond Google.<br \/>\nInvited talk at the Brainstorm Meeting on e-Humanities, March 2011 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/search-engines-for-the-humanities-that-go-beyond-google\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Search engines beyond Google.<br \/>\nTalk at the CLS colloquium, December 2010<\/li>\n<li>Krijgen we ooit de beschikking over slimme zoektechnologie?.<br \/>\nTalk at &#8220;Kennis in Praktijk&#8221; conference, June 2010 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/suzanv\/krijgen-we-ooit-de-beschikking-over-slimme-zoektechnologie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view on slideshare<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>In Search of the Why.<br \/>\nTalk in the Humanities Computing Group, University of Groningen, June 2010<\/li>\n<li>In Search of the Why.<br \/>\nTalk in the <a href=\"http:\/\/clg.wlv.ac.uk\/seminars\/list-seminars.php?year=2010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLG Seminar<\/a>, University of Wolverhampton, February 2010<\/li>\n<li>Using Structural Information for Improving <i>Why<\/i>-QA.<br \/>\nTalk in the DB Colloquium, Twente University, September 2008<\/li>\n<li>Improving <i>why<\/i>-QA: re-ranking answers using syntactic features.<br \/>\nTalk in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ilps.science.uva.nl\/Seminar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ILPS Seminar<\/a>, University of Amsterdam, February 2008<\/li>\n<li>Paragraph Retrieval for <i>why<\/i>-question answering.<br \/>\nTalk in the ILK meeting, University of Tilburg, October 2007<\/li>\n<li>Exploring discourse structure for <i>why<\/i>-QA.<br \/>\nTalk in the panel on <i>Discourse-structure annotation schemes for text corpora<\/i>, 10th International Pragmatics Conference, G\u00f6teborg, Sweden, July 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote talk &#8220;Is the Search Engine of the Future a Chatbot?&#8221;, November 27, 2024, 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liacs.leidenuniv.nl\/~verbernes\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}