Malvina Nissim

Professor of Computational Linguistics and Society at the University of Groningen.

Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG)

Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

Selection of Public Lectures

  • Women in Data Science Ghent, May 2024.
  • Women in Data Science Zürich, April 2023.
  • European Researchers’ Night, Vrouw & Wetenschap (headline act): “Digital Inclusion”, Forum Groningen, September 2022 (Programme)
  • Koninklijk Natuurkundig Genootschap Groningen The Perks and Perils of Language Technology, May 2022 video
  • Dutch Women’s Network at the EU (BrusselsNV), Brussels (online), Belgium, March 2021
  • International Women’s Day – European Council, Brussels (online), Belgium, 8 March 2021. “To mark International Women’s Day, the General Secretariat of the Council has invited Malvina Nissim, Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Groningen, to give a presentation. Professor Nissim, whose research focuses on the interaction between human-made data and machine learning, will talk about how and to what extent human prejudices can be removed from AI.”
  • Universiteit van Nederland, Amsterdam, Netherlands (recorded 28 Oct 2019)
  • TEDx Talk on Humans, AI, and Stereotypes

    In May 2017 I gave a TEDx Talk titled “Serendipity Beyond Stereotypes”, where I talk about one of my research topics, namely Author Profiling, especially in terms of gender, and argue that humans and machines are complementary in finding indicative clues. I also argue that machines can surprise us, and make us think in a way that is less bound to stereotypes hardwired in our brains.

  • Mini-Lecture, Lecturer of the Year 2016

    Here is where I explain, in 9 minutes, the field of Author Analysis This mini-lecture was given in the Aula of the Academy Building in the context of the 2016 Lecturer of the Year election at the University of Groningen. More info here.

  • Unifocus video, ‘Who Wrote the Text?’

    I was asked to tell in less than 2 minutes how we train machines to tell whether two texts are written by the same person or not. This is a field called “Authorship Attribution”, and there was recently an article on The Economist about this. And more info about the video is here.

  • PhD Day 2017 (aftermovie)

    On September 22nd 2017 I gave a plenary talk at the PhD Day on how to conduct PhD research in a not-too-narrow way. I enjoyed it very much, especially interacting with the 900+ audience of PhD students via throw-microphones! (In the video you can see me throw one.)

Science Festivals and Schools

Under the auspices of AILC, the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics, I have coordinated some dissemination activities which we have brought to Science Festivals and schools in Italy, and for which we have created shareable materials. The main person behind this effort is Ludovica Pannitto, in collaboration with Lucia Busso, Roberta Combei, Mirko Lai, Lucio Messina, Alessio Miaschi, Gabriele Sarti. New activities and new materials upcoming! Most of the past ones are listed below (in chronological order).

Activities

Publications and Presentations on the Activities

Interviews and Press