TaCoS Conference

TaCoS Conference

After a year of organising, we hosted the TaCoS in Düsseldorf!

TaCoS is a student conference for Computational Linguistics and is organised by volunteers from different universities each year. Presentations ranged from evaluating the creativity of LLM-generated code to identifying acoustic and syntactic variations in Parkinson's Disease patients using speech models.

Thank you to all the participants, keynote speakers and helpers!

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 29.06.2023 +

8:30 - 9:30
Lanyards and Reception

Seminar Room 23.21.00.44

Register with us and get your lanyards if you did not check in at the hostel.

9:30 - 10:00
Opening Plenary

Lecture Hall 3F

Greeting and general information

10:00 - 11:00
Keynote Talk by Dr. Yulia Zinova

Lecture Hall 3F

Word Embeddings and Morphology

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break

Room 23.21.00.44

11:30 - 12:00
Student Talk - Track A

Seminar Room 23.21.00.46

Throwing Shaders at Language Models - Evaluating Creative Code Generation

Jan Kels

Student Talk - Track B

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

An Exploration of translanguaging on Social Media by Hispanic International Students in the United States

Cristina Reguera-Gòmez

12:10 - 12:40
Student Talk - Track A

Seminar Room 23.21.00.46

Machine Transliteration between two Persian Dialects - The Case of Farsi and Tajiki

Rayyan Merchant

Student Talk - Track B

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

One Parent one language, one child two Grammars

Sumrah Arshad

12:40 - 13:40
Lunch

University Mensa

13:40 - 14:10
Student Talk - Track A

Seminar Room 23.21.00.46

BART meets Macbeth - Summarization of Shakespeare's plays with BART based models

Rishu Kumar, Katja Konermann, Jingyan Chen

Student Talk - Track B

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

Lexicon-based data synthesis for Swiss German NLP

Barbara Kovačić

14:20 - 14:50
Student Talk - Track A

Seminar Room 23.21.00.046

Coronaleugnerchats auf Telegram - Ein distinktiver Schreibstil?

Rebekka Borges

Student Talk - Track B

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

Language Revitalization - A case for Idu Mishmi

Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao

14:50 - 15:30
Coffee Break

Seminar Room 23.21.00.48

15:30 - 16:30
Keynote Talk by Dr. Kilian Evang

Lecture Hall 3F

Semantic Roles for Semantic Parsing Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Friday, 30.06.2023 +

9:45 - 10:00
Day 2 Overview

Lecture Hall 3F

Information for the day

10:00 - 11:00
Keynote Talk by Dr. Nurul Lubis

Lecture Hall 3F

Dialogue Evaluation via Offline Reinforcement Learning and Emotion Prediction

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break

Room 23.21.00.44

11:30 - 12:00
Student Talk - Track A

Seminar Room 23.21.00.46

Evaluation of Russian Noun Word Embeddings For Cases and a Number

Anastasia Yablokova

Student Talk - Track B

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

Exploring Song Topics Across Different Countries - A Latent Dirichlet Allocation Approach

Nursulu Sagimbayeva

12:10 - 12:40
Student Talk - Track A

Seminar Room 23.21.00.46

Microsyntactic Unit Analysis using Word Embedding Models - Experiments on Slavic Languages

Iuliia Zaitova, Irina Stenger, Tania Avgustinova

Student Talk - Track B

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

How do You measure Style (And Much More)

Mikhail Sonkin

12:40 - 13:30
Lunch

University Mensa

13:30 - 15:30
Career Networking Meet-up

Seminar Room 23.21.00.44

Opportunity to discover future career paths and learn from people in the industry and academia. Sponsors from industry and academics from HHU will be there to tell you about their careers in computational linguistics and answers questions about yours in an informal atmosphere. (There will be coffee)

15:30 - 16:30
Keynote Talk by Apl.Prof Wiebke Petersen

Lecture Hall 3F

On representation techniques in Panini's grammar of Sanskrit - Solving an ancient problem

Saturday, 01.07.2023 +

9:45 - 10:00
Day 3 Overview

Seminar Room 23.21.00.046, Seminar Room 23.21.00.48

Information for the day

10:00 - 11:00
Workshop

Seminar Room 23.21.00.46

From Zero to Terminal Hero

Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao

Talk

Seminar Room 23.21.00.48

SEMSAI: Self-Referential Multi-Scale Modelling and Simulation of Severe Infectious Diseases

Annegret Janzso

11:10 - 11:30
Coffee Break

Seminar Room 23.21.00.44

11:30 - 12:40
Workshop

Seminar Room 23.21.00.046

One word, a thousand pictures. Text to image Generation with Stable Diffusion

Adrienne Wright

Workshop

Seminar Room 23.21.00.048

Hey Mycroft, let's play a game! - Developing skills for an open source voice assistant

Mikhail Sonkin, Katja Konermann

12:40 - 13:30
Lunch

Seminar Room 23.21.00.044

14:30 - 15:00
Snacks

Haus der Universität

15:00 - 16:00
Keynote Talk by Univ. Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang

Haus der Universität

The use of computational models to determine acoustic and syntactic variations in Parkinson's Disease patients

16:00 - Open
Closing Plenary

Haus der Universität

Closing talk from the organisation team, thanks and shoutouts

Sunday, 02.07.2023 +