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Dear colleague,
We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology
webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI< (https://hitz.eus).
You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for
upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars
Next webinar:
Speaker: Sampo Pyysalo (University of Turku)
Title: Towards Open Foundation Models for Europe
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 10:00 CET
Summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a breakthrough technology with
broad social and economic effects. However, the development of leading
models is currently concentrated in a few technology hubs primarily in
the U.S. and China, leaving smaller languages behind and making Europe
dependent on external technologies. To secure its digital sovereignty
and ensure that its languages are fully represented, it is essential for
Europe to have the capacity to build its own foundation models. In this
talk, I will present a line of LLM work ranging from early monolingual
models for Finnish to current efforts to create fully open foundation
models for all European languages in the OpenEuroLLM project.
Bio: Sampo Pyysalo is one of the leads of the TurkuNLP group
(https://turkunlp.org/) in the University of Turku, Finland. His work
focuses on machine learning for natural language processing, with
particular emphasis on scientific text mining, Finnish language
technology, and large language models. He received his PhD thesis from
the University of Turku and held researcher positions at the University
of Tokyo, University of Manchester and University of Cambridge before
returning to the University of Turku in 2019. He is currently PI in the
HPLT (https://hplt-project.org/) and OpenEuroLLM
(https://openeurollm.eu/) projects, where he leads efforts to train
multilingual language models.
Upcoming webinars:
ยท Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025)
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webinars.
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