Talks and presentations
Map of all the places I've given a talk.
October 24, 2023
Talk, Saint Louis Generative AI Lab, University City, Missouri
Abstract: We all recognize the amazing success of language language models in developing advanced AI/NLP technologies like ChatGPT for English. But very few other languages have access to the billions of words of text needed to train high-quality LLMs; this is what I call “the new digital divide”. I’d like to talk in broad terms about the prospects in terms of AI and NLP for the other 7000 or so languages spoken in the world today.
April 24, 2023
Talk, University of Galway Cardamom Seminar Series, Galway, Ireland
Same talk as at Notre Dame on April 5th.
April 05, 2023
Talk, University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science, South Bend, Indiana
Seminar talk, via Zoom.
December 07, 2022
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
November 24, 2022
Talk, SPELLL 2022 conference, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India
Keynote address, via Zoom.
November 04, 2022
Talk, “Léacht um Lón” for Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Galway, Ireland
Seminar talk via Zoom.
June 20, 2022
Talk, 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW 2022) at LREC 2022, Marseille, France
Keynote address, via Zoom.
May 31, 2022
Talk, LT Bridge Summer School, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Invited talk, via Zoom.
May 04, 2022
Talk, Panel discussion on “Technology and Irish Culture” hosted by the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Online panel discussion as part of the Academy’s Ireland 2030 series.
December 03, 2021
Talk, Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics lecture series (FACL-2), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Seminar talk via Zoom.
November 16, 2021
Talk, Michel De Graff's course “Linguistics and Social Justice” at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Guest lecture via Zoom.
November 08, 2021
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk. Same content as the October 19th lecture at UMSL.
October 19, 2021
Talk, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
March 09, 2021
Talk, Invited talk for Sult na Sollán, Na Solláin, Co. Chill Dara, Éire
Public lecture via Zoom.
February 09, 2021
Talk, Indiana University's Computational Linguistics seminar, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Zoom lecture.
December 13, 2020
Talk, Universal Dependencies Workshop at COLING 2020, Barcelona, Catalonia
Online poster session.
November 27, 2020
Talk, The Changing Face of Research in the Digital Age, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Invited talk (online).
July 09, 2020
Talk, 2020 Celtic Knot conference (online), Clayton, Missouri, USA
Keynote address.
March 11, 2020
Talk, Áras na Gaeilge, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Guest lecture.
March 04, 2020
Talk, TechFéile 2020, Shannon Airport, County Clare, Ireland
Coding workshop for middle school students.
February 18, 2020
Talk, Rannóg an Aistriúchán, Teach Laighean, Dublin, Ireland
Invited talk.
February 06, 2020
Talk, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Seminar talk. Same content as the February 3rd talk at NUI Galway.
February 03, 2020
Talk, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Seminar talk.
February 01, 2020
Talk, , An Caisleán Nua, Contae Longfoirt, Éire
Tutorial for secondary school teachers hosted by TechSpace; available in English and Irish.
November 21, 2019
Talk, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Panel discussion.
November 18, 2019
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk. Same content as the September 26th talk at WashU.
September 26, 2019
Talk, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
April 09, 2019
Talk, Prepare.ai Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Invited talk.
March 18, 2019
Talk, GeoSpatial 101 conference at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Lecture on AI for a general audience.
November 01, 2018
Talk, St. Louis Venture Café, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
September 10, 2018
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
September 07, 2018
Talk, Irish Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Colloquium talk.
September 06, 2018
Talk, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Panel discussion with Tom Fitzgerald, Myk Klemme, Pádraig Ó Maoilreánaigh, Caoimhe Ní Chonchoille, and Imelda White.
May 24, 2018
Talk, 23rd annual NAACLT conference, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Conference paper.
October 26, 2017
Talk, Rice University math department colloquium, Houston, Texas, USA
Colloquium talk.
September 27, 2017
Talk, SLU Math/CS Club, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
An introduction to computational lexicography for undergraduates.
May 08, 2017
Talk, Book launch for “An Ríomhaire Ilteangach” by Michal Boleslav Měchura, Dublin City University All Hallows Campus, Dublin, Ireland
Keynote address.
April 01, 2017
Talk, ACIS national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Conference paper.
April 01, 2017
Talk, ACIS national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Conference paper.
February 15, 2017
Talk, SLU Math/CS Club, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
An introduction to language models for undergraduates.
June 10, 2016
Talk, 22nd annual NAACLT conference, Albany, New York, USA
Conference paper on Intergaelic (gv2ga).
March 23, 2016
Talk, Walter J. Ong, SJ Digital Humanities Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
March 10, 2016
Talk, Pobal na Gaeilge sa Ré Dhigiteach, Na Forbacha, Co. Galway, Ireland
Public lecture.
November 16, 2015
Talk, Washington University Machine Learning seminar, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Seminar talk.
November 09, 2015
Talk, British-Irish Council IML Languages Conference, “Promoting Our Languages Through Technology”, Chester Beatty Museum, Dublin, Ireland
Public lecture.
October 05, 2015
Talk, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Seminar talk.
October 05, 2015
Talk, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Seminar talk about Intergaelic.
August 13, 2015
Talk, Comhdháil Cois Locha 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Conference paper.
June 04, 2015
Talk, 21st annual NAACLT conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Conference paper on Intergaelic (gd2ga).
December 11, 2014
Talk, Google offices, Dublin, Ireland
Video talk at the launch of the Irish version of Gmail.
August 23, 2014
Talk, 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Invited talk.
August 23, 2014
Talk, 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Conference paper.
August 11, 2014
Talk, CIDLeS Summer School 2014: Coding for Language Communities, Minde, Portugal
Public lecture.
March 14, 2014
Talk, Offices of the Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
Public lecture.
November 12, 2013
Talk, Book launch hosted by Science Gallery Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Launch of the Wikipedia version of Prof. Matt Hussey’s comprehensive encyclopedia of science and technology.
September 07, 2013
Talk, 2nd INNET conference on digital language archiving, Gniezno, Poland
Public lecture.
September 05, 2013
Talk, INNET Summer School on Technological Approaches to the Documentation of Lesser-Used Languages, Gniezno, Poland
Workshop.
September 04, 2013
Talk, INNET Summer School on Technological Approaches to the Documentation of Lesser-Used Languages, Gniezno, Poland
Workshop.
August 14, 2013
Talk, Workshop on Corpus-based Quantitative Typology (CoQuaT 2013), Leipzig, Germany
Invited talk.
May 30, 2013
Talk, 19th annual NAACLT conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Conference paper presented in Irish with simultaneous translation by Eoin Ó Catháin.
May 21, 2013
Talk, University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Overview of processes and tools for localization at Mozilla, presented with Jeff Beatty.
May 21, 2013
Talk, University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Public lecture.
May 21, 2013
Talk, University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Hands-on session covering localization issues that arise for under-resourced languages.
May 15, 2013
Talk, St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science meetup, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
May 02, 2013
Talk, Illinois High School Translation Competition hosted by the University of Illinois EU Center, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Public lecture.
March 09, 2013
Talk, Indigenous Tweets, Visible Voices, and Technology panel at SXSW 2013, Austin, Texas, USA
Panel discussion with Kara Andrade, Maite Goñi, and Peter Rohloff.
March 02, 2013
Talk, Is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine: Éire sa 21ú Aois idir Indibhidiúlacht agus Phobal, Dublin, Ireland
Conference presentation.
February 16, 2013
Talk, Féile Imbolc, Baile Bhúirne, Contae Chorcaí, Éire
Public lecture.
November 05, 2012
Talk, Symposium for the 20th anniversary of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Conference paper.
November 02, 2012
Talk, Oireachtas na Samhna, Leitir Ceanainn, Dún na nGall, Éire
Panel discussion with Ciarán Ó Bréartúin agus Séamus Ó Briain.
October 31, 2012
Talk, Engineers Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Public lecture.
September 14, 2012
Talk, 16th Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
Conference paper.
May 31, 2012
Talk, 18th annual NAACLT conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Conference paper.
April 10, 2012
Talk, Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA
Tech talk at Twitter HQ.
October 28, 2011
Talk, An 20 Bliain atá romhainn: Taighde agus Teagasc na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Conference paper.
April 21, 2011
Talk, St. Louis Unix Users' Group, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
January 14, 2011
Talk, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Survey talk on statistical NLP and endangered languages.
November 10, 2010
Talk, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Seminar talk with Michael Schade.
October 11, 2010
Talk, 1st annual Indigenous Language Institute Symposium Series, Pueblo Isleta, New Mexico
Invited talk.
November 08, 2009
Talk, St. Louis BarCamp, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Talk on diacritic restoration (“charlifter”).
May 22, 2009
Talk, 15th annual NAACLT conference, New York Irish Center, Queens, New York, USA
Conference paper.
January 21, 2009
Talk, St. Louis Perl Mongers, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Survey talk.
October 18, 2008
Talk, “Words, Texts and Dictionaries” conference at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
Conference paper.
August 21, 2008
Talk, St. Louis Unix Users Group, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Survey talk.
July 17, 2008
Talk, Clavius Conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Invited talk.
June 12, 2008
Talk, 14th annual NAACLT conference hosted by the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio, USA
Conference paper.
May 11, 2008
Talk, 41st Festival of the Piedmont Region, Cherasco, Italy
Video lecture at the Vox Humanitatis conference on technology for minority languages.
September 16, 2007
Talk, 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Presentation at WAC3 panel discussion.
September 15, 2007
Talk, 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Keynote address at WAC3.
May 01, 2007
Talk, UT Austin seminar, Austin, Texas, USA
Invited seminar talk. Joint (unpublished) work with Dave Jackson.
November 06, 2004
Talk, New Techniques in Lorentz Manifolds workshop at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Same talk as at Northwestern on October 23rd.
October 23, 2004
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Abstract and Slides.
June 14, 2003
Talk, Workshop “Traitement automatique des langues minoritaires et des petites langues”, at TALN 2003, Batz-sur-Mer, France
Conference paper.
February 28, 2003
Talk, Wesleyan University colloquium, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Invited colloquium talk
April 10, 2002
Talk, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Invited seminar talk
April 08, 2002
Talk, Ritter Hall, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Lecture on internationalization for undergraduates at Saint Louis University.
March 27, 2002
Talk, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Invited seminar talk
March 02, 2002
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Abstract and Slides.
May 24, 2001
Talk, University of Chicago topology seminar, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Invited seminar talk
January 25, 2001
Talk, University of Oklahoma Karcher colloquium, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Invited colloquium talk
March 16, 2000
Talk, University of Michigan geometry seminar, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Invited seminar talk
February 24, 2000
Talk, Wash U colloquium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Invited colloquium talk
December 02, 1999
Talk, Pittsburg State colloquium, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
Invited colloquium talk
August 10, 1999
Talk, Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah, USA
Slides
August 09, 1999
Talk, Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah, USA
Associated paper
March 19, 1999
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Abstract and Slides.
March 07, 1999
Talk, Brown University Department of Mathematics colloquium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Invited colloquium talk
August 12, 1998
Talk, Georgia Topology Conference, Athens, Georgia, USA
Invited talk.
May 05, 1998
Talk, Brown University topology seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Invited seminar talk
February 24, 1998
Talk, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
My job talk at SLU.
October 24, 1997
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Abstract and Slides.
October 21, 1997
Talk, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Invited seminar talk
March 31, 1997
Talk, UT Austin topology seminar, Austin, Texas, USA
Invited seminar talk
December 01, 1995
Talk, UCLA topology seminar, Los Angeles, California, USA
An early seminar talk while I was in grad school; I thought the title was pretty funny at the time.
