Explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction
Talk, Celtic Languages in the Digital Age workshop, Lancaster, UK
20-minute version of the April 2023 talks.
Talks and presentations
Map of all the places I've given a talk.
NLP and AI in languages beyond English
Talk, Saint Louis Generative AI Lab, University City, Missouri
Abstract: We all recognize the amazing success of 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.
Towards explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction
Talk, University of Galway Cardamom Seminar Series, Galway, Ireland
Same talk as at Notre Dame on April 5th.
Towards explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction
Talk, University of Notre Dame Department of Computer Science, South Bend, Indiana
Seminar talk, via Zoom.
How does Grammarly work?
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
20 Years a’ Growing: Past, Present, and Future of Irish NLP
Talk, SPELLL 2022 conference, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India
Keynote address, via Zoom.
Meaisínfhoghlaim agus Gramadach na Gaeilge
Talk, “Léacht um Lón” for Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, Galway, Ireland
Seminar talk via Zoom.
Diachronic Parsing of Pre-Standard Irish
Talk, 4th Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW 2022) at LREC 2022, Marseille, France
Keynote address, via Zoom.
Giorraíonn BERT Bóthar: Benchmark datasets and implementations for Irish NLP
Talk, LT Bridge Summer School, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Invited talk, via Zoom.
AI in minority language contexts: a new digital divide?
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.
Computational models for predicting Celtic mutations
Talk, Foundational Approaches to Celtic Linguistics lecture series (FACL-2), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Seminar talk via Zoom.
Language from Below: Grassroots efforts to develop language technology for minoritized languages
Talk, Michel De Graff's course “Linguistics and Social Justice” at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Guest lecture via Zoom.
Machine learning and language technology in minority language contexts
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk. Same content as the October 19th lecture at UMSL.
Machine learning and language technology in minority language contexts
Talk, University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
Acmhainní teicneolaíochta do phobal na Gaeilge
Talk, Invited talk for Sult na Sollán, Na Solláin, Co. Chill Dara, Éire
Public lecture via Zoom.
Neural models for predicting Celtic mutations
Talk, Indiana University's Computational Linguistics seminar, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Zoom lecture.
Universal Dependencies for Manx Gaelic
Talk, Universal Dependencies Workshop at COLING 2020, Barcelona, Catalonia
Online poster session.
Digital Resources for the Medieval Gaelic World
Talk, The Changing Face of Research in the Digital Age, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Invited talk (online).
Strategies for scaling up the Irish language Wikipedia
Talk, 2020 Celtic Knot conference (online), Clayton, Missouri, USA
Keynote address.
Teicneolaíocht Teanga: Gaeilge agus an chéad mhíle teanga eile
Talk, Áras na Gaeilge, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Guest lecture.
Coding in Irish
Talk, TechFéile 2020, Shannon Airport, County Clare, Ireland
Coding workshop for middle school students.
Meaisínfhoghlaim agus Gramadach na Gaeilge
Talk, Rannóg an Aistriúchán, Teach Laighean, Dublin, Ireland
Invited talk.
Initial mutations as low-entropy features in neural language modeling
Talk, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Seminar talk. Same content as the February 3rd talk at NUI Galway.
Initial mutations as low-entropy features in neural language modeling
Talk, Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
Seminar talk.
Introductory tutorial on neural networks and machine translation
Talk, , An Caisleán Nua, Contae Longfoirt, Éire
Tutorial for secondary school teachers hosted by TechSpace; available in English and Irish.
Linguistic imperialism in AI
Talk, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Panel discussion.
Neural language technology in an under-resourced setting
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk. Same content as the September 26th talk at WashU.
Neural language technology in an under-resourced setting
Talk, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
Scaling up language technology for the next 1000 languages
Talk, Prepare.ai Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Invited talk.
AI, Machine Learning, Neural Networks and all that
Talk, GeoSpatial 101 conference at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Lecture on AI for a general audience.
Language Modeling for Endangered Languages
Talk, St. Louis Venture Café, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
Recent advances in neural language models
Talk, Saint Louis University Department of Computer Science, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Colloquium talk.
New Frontiers in Language Technology for Minority Languages
Talk, Irish Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Colloquium talk.
The Present and Future of the Irish Language
Talk, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Panel discussion with Tom Fitzgerald, Myk Klemme, Pádraig Ó Maoilreánaigh, Caoimhe Ní Chonchoille, and Imelda White.
“Is iomaí cor i saol an fhocail”: Linking online dictionaries of Old Irish and Modern Irish
Talk, 23rd annual NAACLT conference, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Conference paper.
Scaling up language technology for the next 1000 languages
Talk, Rice University math department colloquium, Houston, Texas, USA
Colloquium talk.
Chasing the Sun
Talk, SLU Math/CS Club, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
An introduction to computational lexicography for undergraduates.
Struchtúr na Gaeilge mar bhuntáiste sa ríomhtheangeolaíocht
Talk, Book launch for “An Ríomhaire Ilteangach” by Michal Boleslav Měchura, Dublin City University All Hallows Campus, Dublin, Ireland
Keynote address.
Caighdeánú na Gaeilge
Talk, ACIS national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Conference paper.
Intergaelic: Manx language resources for Irish speakers
Talk, ACIS national meeting, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Conference paper.
Betting on Language
Talk, SLU Math/CS Club, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
An introduction to language models for undergraduates.
New Manx language resources for Irish speakers
Talk, 22nd annual NAACLT conference, Albany, New York, USA
Conference paper on Intergaelic (gv2ga).
Language revitalization in the digital age: building bridges, empowering communities
Talk, Walter J. Ong, SJ Digital Humanities Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
Teicneolaíocht agus Mionteangacha
Talk, Pobal na Gaeilge sa Ré Dhigiteach, Na Forbacha, Co. Galway, Ireland
Public lecture.
Machine learning and technology for endangered languages
Talk, Washington University Machine Learning seminar, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Seminar talk.
Minority Languages and Technology: Openness and Cross-Language Collaboration
Talk, British-Irish Council IML Languages Conference, “Promoting Our Languages Through Technology”, Chester Beatty Museum, Dublin, Ireland
Public lecture.
Corpus-based language technology for Indigenous and minority languages
Talk, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Seminar talk.
Eadar-Ghaeilg: Scottish and Manx Gaelic resources for Irish speakers
Talk, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA
Seminar talk about Intergaelic.
An tIdirlíon mar dhroichead idir foghlaimeoirí i Meiriceá Thuaidh agus an Ghaeltacht
Talk, Comhdháil Cois Locha 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Conference paper.
Scottish Gaelic language technologies based on web corpora
Talk, 21st annual NAACLT conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Conference paper on Intergaelic (gd2ga).
Seoladh Gmail
Talk, Google offices, Dublin, Ireland
Video talk at the launch of the Irish version of Gmail.
Celtic language technology and open data (including a survey of Manx Gaelic resources)
Talk, 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Invited talk.
Statistical models for text normalization and machine translation
Talk, 1st Celtic Language Technology Workshop at COLING 2014, Dublin, Ireland
Conference paper.
An Overview of the Crúbadán Project
Talk, CIDLeS Summer School 2014: Coding for Language Communities, Minde, Portugal
Public lecture.
Acmhainní Ríomhaireachta don Ghaeilge
Talk, Offices of the Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
Public lecture.
Seoladh “Fréamh an Eolais”
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.
Linguistic resources from web corpora (a.k.a “The worst archive ever”)
Talk, 2nd INNET conference on digital language archiving, Gniezno, Poland
Public lecture.
Endangered languages and social media
Talk, INNET Summer School on Technological Approaches to the Documentation of Lesser-Used Languages, Gniezno, Poland
Workshop.
Unicode for Linguists
Talk, INNET Summer School on Technological Approaches to the Documentation of Lesser-Used Languages, Gniezno, Poland
Workshop.
How many languages are on the web? The Crúbadán project 10+ years on
Talk, Workshop on Corpus-based Quantitative Typology (CoQuaT 2013), Leipzig, Germany
Invited talk.
Tweet2Learn: Language Learning via Social Media
Talk, 19th annual NAACLT conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Conference paper presented in Irish with simultaneous translation by Eoin Ó Catháin.
Localization at Mozilla
Talk, University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Overview of processes and tools for localization at Mozilla, presented with Jeff Beatty.
Localization in minority language contexts
Talk, University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Public lecture.
Facebook i18n Workshop
Talk, University of Limerick L10N summer school, Limerick, Ireland
Hands-on session covering localization issues that arise for under-resourced languages.
Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing
Talk, St. Louis Machine Learning and Data Science meetup, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
Regional and Minority Languages in Social Media
Talk, Illinois High School Translation Competition hosted by the University of Illinois EU Center, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Public lecture.
Indigenous Tweets, Visible Voices, and Technology
Talk, Indigenous Tweets, Visible Voices, and Technology panel at SXSW 2013, Austin, Texas, USA
Panel discussion with Kara Andrade, Maite Goñi, and Peter Rohloff.
Teangacha Mionlaigh sa Ré Dhigiteach: Tionchar na Meán Sóisialta
Talk, Is ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine: Éire sa 21ú Aois idir Indibhidiúlacht agus Phobal, Dublin, Ireland
Conference presentation.
Mionteangacha ar an Idirlíon: ag sárú na gconstaicí
Talk, Féile Imbolc, Baile Bhúirne, Contae Chorcaí, Éire
Public lecture.
Social media and revitalization of the Celtic languages
Talk, Symposium for the 20th anniversary of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Conference paper.
An Ríomhlóid Abú!
Talk, Oireachtas na Samhna, Leitir Ceanainn, Dún na nGall, Éire
Panel discussion with Ciarán Ó Bréartúin agus Séamus Ó Briain.
I dTreo Ríomhaireachta Lán-Ghaeilge
Talk, Engineers Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Public lecture.
Translating Facebook into Endangered Languages
Talk, 16th Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
Conference paper.
Facebook in all six Celtic languages (mar dhea)
Talk, 18th annual NAACLT conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Conference paper.
Language identification of tweets
Talk, Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA
Tech talk at Twitter HQ.
Fíor-Ghaeltacht nó Gaeltacht Fhíorúil? Meáin Shóisialta agus Forbairt na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh
Talk, An 20 Bliain atá romhainn: Taighde agus Teagasc na Gaeilge i Meiriceá Thuaidh, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Conference paper.
New computational resources for indigenous and minority languages
Talk, 17th annual NAACLT conference, Douglas, Isle of Man
Conference paper covering Accentuate.us and Indigenous Tweets.
Statistical Machine Learning and Machine Translation
Talk, St. Louis Unix Users' Group, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Public lecture.
Saving Languages with Statistics
Talk, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Survey talk on statistical NLP and endangered languages.
Accentuate Us!
Talk, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Seminar talk with Michael Schade.
Turning the Tide: Terminology Creation and Free Software in Irish
Talk, 1st annual Indigenous Language Institute Symposium Series, Pueblo Isleta, New Mexico
Invited talk.
Saving languages with statistics and web crawlers
Talk, St. Louis BarCamp, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Talk on diacritic restoration (“charlifter”).
Standardization of corpus texts for the New English-Irish Dictionary
Talk, 15th annual NAACLT conference, New York Irish Center, Queens, New York, USA
Conference paper.
Statistical language processing (and Perl)
Talk, St. Louis Perl Mongers, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Survey talk.
Semi-automated construction of semantic networks using web corpora
Talk, “Words, Texts and Dictionaries” conference at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales
Conference paper.
Open source language technology using statistical methods
Talk, St. Louis Unix Users Group, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Survey talk.
Rigidity and non-rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds
Talk, Clavius Conference, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Invited talk.
An Gramadóir: A grammar-checking framework for the Celtic languages and its applications
Talk, 14th annual NAACLT conference hosted by the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio, USA
Conference paper.
Language technology from scratch
Talk, 41st Festival of the Piedmont Region, Cherasco, Italy
Video lecture at the Vox Humanitatis conference on technology for minority languages.
Metadata for Web-Crawling
Talk, 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Presentation at WAC3 panel discussion.
The Crúbadán Project: Corpus building for under-resourced languages
Talk, 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Keynote address at WAC3.
Cohomology computations for Fibonacci groups and manifolds
Talk, UT Austin seminar, Austin, Texas, USA
Invited seminar talk. Joint (unpublished) work with Dave Jackson.
Cohomology constructions for hyperbolic knot and link complements
Talk, New Techniques in Lorentz Manifolds workshop at the Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Same talk as at Northwestern on October 23rd.
Cohomology constructions for hyperbolic knot and link complements
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Automatic thesaurus generation for minority languages: an Irish example
Talk, Workshop “Traitement automatique des langues minoritaires et des petites langues”, at TALN 2003, Batz-sur-Mer, France
Conference paper.
3-manifolds which are spacelike slices of flat spacetimes
Talk, Wesleyan University colloquium, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Invited colloquium talk
Rigid and non-rigid hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Invited seminar talk
Global Software
Talk, Ritter Hall, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Lecture on internationalization for undergraduates at Saint Louis University.
Deformations of flat spacetimes
Talk, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Invited seminar talk
Generalized bending laminations for hyperbolic n-manifolds
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Cohomology of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk, University of Chicago topology seminar, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Invited seminar talk
Geometry and topology of arithmetic 3-manifolds
Talk, University of Oklahoma Karcher colloquium, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Invited colloquium talk
Deformations of representations of 3-manifold groups
Talk, University of Michigan geometry seminar, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Invited seminar talk
Deformations of Riemann Surfaces
Talk, Wash U colloquium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Invited colloquium talk
What is the topology of the universe?
Talk, Pittsburg State colloquium, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA
Invited colloquium talk
3-manifolds which are spacelike slices of flat spacetimes
Talk, Midwest Relativity Meeting, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Slides and the associated paper.
Flat conformal structures and constant curvature spacetimes
Talk, Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah, USA
The grafting map of Teichmüller space
Talk, Wasatch Topology Conference, Park City, Utah, USA
Deformation problems in hyperbolic and Lorentzian geometry
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
Deformations of projective structures on Riemann surfaces
Talk, Brown University Department of Mathematics colloquium, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Invited colloquium talk
Deformation spaces of flat conformal structures
Talk, Georgia Topology Conference, Athens, Georgia, USA
Invited talk.
Deformation problems in hyperbolic and Lorentzian geometry
Talk, Brown University topology seminar, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Invited seminar talk
Deformation problems in hyperbolic and Lorentzian geometry
Talk, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
My job talk at SLU.
Deformations of flat conformal structures for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk, AMS Central Section Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Deformation spaces of flat conformal structures
Talk, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Invited seminar talk
Flat conformal structures on hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Talk, UT Austin topology seminar, Austin, Texas, USA
Invited seminar talk
A proof of the Riemann Hypothesis (for dynamical zeta functions)
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.