Human Language Technologies Day at TU Delft

(This event will be held in English)

Human language technologies are transforming the innovation landscape in society and industry. Recent advances in large language and multi-modal models have brought human language technologies to the forefront of AI. We are at a tipping point witnessing the drastic growth of HLT applications and their transformative impact on the way we communicate and interact, with humans and with machines.

Coming along with the rapid increase of HLT usage, however, are pressing concerns about the inherent shortcomings of such technologies and the social and ethical implications. The stranglehold of the transformative technologies by private giants further raises the barrier to overcoming these challenges. Proper design, deployment, and adoption of HLT require open, transdisciplinary research and innovation to offer insights into the scientific and practical challenges. 

The HLT community at TU Delft is organising the Human Language Technologies Day on May 17, Mondai House of AI. The aim of the Day is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of language technologies to share their perspectives and insights from research and practical applications, and ideas about the current challenges and future opportunities. This event features a list of invited talks by TU Delft researchers and practitioners from ING, EMC, Philips, Booking.com, and SURF. 

HLT at Delft
HLT at Delft is home to world-class researchers from broad socio-technical backgrounds, collaborating with partners from a wide range of domains. A number of labs, part of the TU Delft AI Labs & Talent programme, are working on human language technologies. Together we are creating knowledge for the design, development, governance, and use of the next generation of HLT that are reliable, safe, and trustworthy. 

Programme
10:30 – 11:00 Meet & Greet
11:00 – 11:10 Welcome Address
11:10 – 11:35 Avishek Anand (WIS/EWI, TU Delft) LLMs for Search and Question-Answering
11:35 – 12:00 Aki Harma (Philips, UM) Automatic Reporting in Healthcare Industry
12:00 – 12:25 Fengjun Wang (Booking.com) MuMIC – Multimodal Embedding for Multi-label Image Classification with Tempered Sigmoid
12:25 – 13:25 Lunch Break
13:25 – 13:50 Paul Braakman (ING) ING’s Use Case for Communication Surveillance
13:50 – 14:15 Ujwal Gadiraju (WIS/EWI, TU Delft) A Different Language Is A Different Vision Of Life: Building Robust Human-Centered AI Systems
14:15 – 14:40 Jiwon Jung (EMC) Data-enabled Design in the Field of Digital Health: Understanding hundreds of thousands of patient experience using human language technologies
14:40 – 15:05 Senthil Chandrasegaran (IO, TU Delft) Understanding and Simulating Design Practice through Language
15:05 – 15:20 Break
15:20 – 15:45 Stefan Buijsman (TBM, TU Delft) Operationalizing Values in Human Language Technologies
15:45 – 16:10 Matthieu Laneuville (SURF) How to Enable Easy Access to Public Value Driven Language Models: an Infrastructure Perspective
16:10 – 16:55 Gerd Kortuem, Olya Kudina, Peter Lloyd, w/ Jie Yang  Fireside chat: How can Human Language Technologies better serve Humans?
17:00 Drinks!