Programme CLARIN Annual Conference 2023

In this keynote, I offer studies and reflections on the ethical issues of generative artificial intelligence (AI). The special feature of generative artificial intelligence systems is that they are based on generative models that can produce multiple outputs: generation of text or images for various purposes such as translation, production of computer code, chatbots, decision support and so on. These models, pre-trained on large datasets, can be optimised to produce a new application using little additional data specific to that task. The social and economic impact of generative AI systems is likely to be major in many potential uses, for example, in the environment or in healthcare. However, these generative AI systems raise many ethical, epistemological, anthropological, psychological, economic, social, political and cultural questions. Some of these issues will continue to occur as these technologies are put to new uses, and it is not yet possible to predict all the effects they will have on individuals and society. Since the end of 2022, economic and political actors in several countries have been discussing the impact of language models built with these generative AI systems. Some of these models have an impressive number of parameters. The race for the largest model is ongoing, but it is not certain that larger models would deliver higher performance. I was involved as a co-writer of the opinion n°7 of the ethical issues of generative artificial intelligence in the CNPEN (National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics). In this opinion, CNPEN focuses on the most important ethical issues in light of current experience with generative AI systems, mainly on language models.

Annual workshop for K-centre representatives, see the event page.
 

This workshop aims at supporting researchers interested in creating a workflow in the SSH Open Marketplace. Following a brief presentation of what the SSH Open Marketplace is and how it works, participants will be supported by members of the Editorial Board of this discovery portal to write and document their research scenarios, based on the use of CLARIN tools, services and data - for example the CLARIN Resource Families or tools from the Language Resource Switchboard. Workflows are an ideal way to share one’s research resources, and harness the power of the SSH Open Marketplace to contextualise tools and services with publications, datasets, and training resources, thus presenting a research activity from A to Z in an easy to follow and reproducible way.
 

The EuReCo workshop brings together representatives of National Corpora from CLARIN countries. Its aim is to explore the possibilities of launching an initiative toward a large multilingual and distributed reference corpus for European languages that would connect these existing resources. Such an initiative could potentially develop into a new CLARIN flagship project. It would enable linguists to explore corpora of different languages, especially annotated ones, by means of the CLARIN infrastructure. Eventually, this project could lead to the creation of a large comparable corpus of European languages accessible through a single access point. For more details, including the agenda, please refer to this link.

You can find the agenda via this link.