Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen
Harmonie Complex
Oude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen, The Netherlands
m.nissim@rug.nl
office 1311.421
An easy access introduction to Computational Linguistics (in Italian) with amazing drawings by Myriam Nissim!
Long piece on il Venerdì di Repubblica (in Italian, April 2023)
Book review by Giornale Trentino (in Italian, January 2023)
The book is available on the Carocci website and also on Amazon
News and Recent Events
- Watch Your Language! Interdisciplinary workshop at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, April 8-12 2024
- The HAICu project is funded! I’m involved as co-applicant, and we are about to open a PhD position on it.
- Keynote at ESSLLI 2023: Plenary Evening Lecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2023
Past Events
- Keynote at ESSLLI 2023: Plenary Evening Lecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 2023
- Keynote at KONVENS 2022 - Annual Meeting of the German Computational Linguistics Association, Potsdam, Germany, September 2022
- Keynote at 8th Conf on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora, Nijmegen, Netherlands, November 2021
- Keynote at CILCC 2020: International Congress of Computational and Corpus Linguistics, Medellin (online), Colombia, October 2020.
- Keynote at 53rd Congress of the Italian Linguistics Society (SLI), Como, Italy, September 2019.
- Plenary Lecture at Summer school in Natural Language Processing (Python4NLP), Nancy, France, August 2019.
- I was invited as keynote speaker at the 2018 International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT), Oslo, 13-14 December, 2018
- I was invited as keynote speaker at the NL4AI Workshop, AI*IA, Trento, 20-23 November, 2018
- I gave a seminar talk at ILCC, University of Edinburgh, November 16th, 2018, Edinburgh, UK
- I was invited as plenary speaker at the "Conference on Corpus technologies. Digital Humanities and modern knowledge" (ConCorT), Moscow, 12-14 October, 2018
- I was invited as plenary speaker at Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018, Ljubljana, 20-21 September, 2018
- I gave a talk at the CLiPS Colloquium in Antwerp on June 26th: "The blessing and the curse of lexical information in author profiling"
- Training data for GxG is available on the website! GxG is the first shared task on cross-genre gender prediction for Italian, and will be organised at EVALITA 2018.
- Short Paper on Cross-lingual Gender Prediction accepted at ACL 2018 in Melbourne! Joint work with Rob van der Goot, Barbara Plank, Nikola Ljubešić, and Ian Matroos.
- On April 12th I gave a talk at the Education Festival of the University of Groningen. This video interview relates to the event:
- I was awarded a Fellowship for Innovation of Teaching for 2018
- PEOPLES 2018, the second workshop on Computational Modeling of People's Emotions, Opinions, and Personality on Social Media, will be co-located with NAACL 2018 in New Orleans, June 6
- I was the General Chair of *SEM 2018, the Seventh Joint Conference of Lexical and Computational Semantics, co-located with NAACL in New Orleans, June 5-6
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Recent Highlights
Lecturer of the Year
I was elected as the 2016 Lecturer of the Year of the University of Groningen
TEDx Talk
I recently gave a TEDx Talk on Language, Humans, and AI, and how machines might challenge our stereotypical thinking
1st @PAN2017
Our system won the international competition on Author Profiling (PAN 2017) for the second year in a row
